Take this opportunity to celebrate collecting and preservation in your community, and to highlight your institution as a source of preservation information.
+ create a display about preserving and collecting personal, family, or community heritage
+ offer a preservation workshop or event or
+ highlight Preservation Week on your web site with a link to ALA’s Preservation Week resources
This Google Map has info on many (but likely not all) of the special events going on around the nation. We wouldn't doubt if more are added in the next day or two.
Of course, we would be happy to include events taking place at the libraries, archives, and other places ResourceShelf readers work or the public libraries they use. Just let us know. Drop us a note with a link and a sentence or two about the event and make sure to include "Preservation Week 2010" in the subject line. We will do our best to link back and include your brief description.
The first special event that we will mention takes place in Washington D.C., at the Library of Congress on Monday:
"The Library's preservation experts will talk directly with individuals about managing their materials in all formats -- everything from e-mail to home movies to digital photographs and recorded sound. For security reasons, visitors are asked not to bring their collection materials to the Library; no appraisals will be provided."
Plan on tweeting preservation week events or about preservation topics. The official hashtag (according to LC) is #presweek2010.
+ We also will include material about digital preservation. It's a topic we post about often on RS and it's an important one. As we pointed out last week, not only is the amount and kinds of digital data increasing (according to one source digital content grew 62% in 1009 but at the same time this also means the decisions need to be made/expanded/modified about how to archive and preserve the data (for the long term). These are key topics for our profession and they grow more important each day.
+ This afternoon on Twitter we came across this excellent compilation (that will expand throughout the week) of what libraries from around the world are doing to "preserve data." The page comes from "The Government & Heritage Library Blog," a Division of the State Library of North Carolina. We plan on posting the everyday this week.
Preservation Week is sponsored by the ALA, Library of Congress, IMLS, and partner organizations.
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