Week 10 Preservation and Technology – where the management of the two intersect

Topics:

• Communication Skills are invaluable.  We will discuss the importance of networking and its many purposes; listening to colleagues, bosses and subordinates.

• Written communication – Grammar and word usage make all the difference!

• What is the purpose of conferences and what should you get out of them?

• Networking and its many purposes

Reading:

• Giesecke – Practical Strategies for Library Management chapter 8

• Higginbotham and Wild – Preservation Program Blueprint chapter 9 and 12

• Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring academic information resources for the 21^st century.    Read chapters 1,2,12

• “Issues in Digital Archiving” by Peter Graham in Preservation: Issues and Planning chapter 6

• Preservation of Electronic Formats & Electronic Formats for Preservation by Janice Mohlhenrich chapter 1

• Preserving Digital Information by Gregory S. Hunter a How To Do It Manual NY: Neal Schuman © 2000 Chapter 1

• On Writing Well by William Zinzer – chapter on business writing

• Why digitize?  By Abby Smith CLIR February 1999 http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub80.html

• Electronic Records Management: A Review of the Work of a Decade and a Reflection on Future Direction  Encyclopedia of Library & Information Science Vol. 71 supplement 34 (2002) p47-81 (review article)

• Be prepared to an active discussion about issues the deal with preservation and technology, including the following topics:  obsolescence, hardware, software, storage, costs, formats that are affected by this ‘catch 22’ and what the library / archives community is doing to remedy the situation 

Write a 3 page letter (max.) to the director of your library or archive recommending or rejecting deacidification of a specific collection.  Use the collection that you work with or have created for the other exercises.

• Justify your recommendation using preservation literature. 

• Include at least 3 citations from print or internet sources.