[Metadatalibrarians] Call for Proposals: Best Practices for Digital Preservation

[Veve, Marielle]

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The ALCTS PARS Digital Preservation Interest Group (DPIG)  seeks speakers to present at the ALA Annual Conference to be held in Chicago on Sunday, June 25th, 2017, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM.

The Digital Preservation Interest Group's charge is to serve as a venue for discussing the preservation management of digital assets whether commercial, born-digital or converted e-resources.

Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length.  Additional time will be allowed for questions and discussion.

This year's theme is "Best Practices for Digital Preservation". Potential topics might include, but are not limited to:


*         Digital preservation workflows

*         Digital preservation initiatives and/or projects

*         Digital preservation policies, planning and/or services

*         Digital preservation metadata

*         Digital preservation tools and technology

*         Guidelines and standards for digital preservation

Please email proposal abstracts to Marielle Veve (m.veve at unf.edu<mailto:m.veve at unf.edu>) by Friday, April 21st 2017.
If you have any questions, please contact us.  We look forward to hearing from you!

ALCTS PARS Digital Preservation Interest Group
Marielle Veve and Chad Garrett, Co-Chairs


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Marielle Veve
Metadata Librarian
Thomas G. Carpenter Library
University of North Florida
1 UNF Dr., Jacksonville, FL 32224
m.veve at unf.edu<mailto:m.veve at unf.edu>   904-620-5726