Association of Research Libraries (ARL®)

For immediate release:
August 7, 2009

For more information, contact:
Karla Hahn
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
karla@arl.org

Washington DC--The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is hosting a webcast on "Preservation: Evolving Roles and Responsibilities of Research Libraries" on September 15, 2009, from 1:00-2:00 PM EDT.

Grounded in the recently released report by Lars Meyer, "Safeguarding Collections at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Describing Roles & Measuring Contemporary Preservation Activities in ARL Libraries," the webcast will offer a brief overview of Meyer's key findings about how research libraries are working to ensure ongoing access to collections in all formats.

In addition, the webcast will showcase comments from two reactors to the report: James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University Libraries, will offer his perspectives on community level preservation challenges; and Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and Vice Provost for Library Affairs, Duke University Libraries, will discuss aligning preservation activities with institutional and inter-institutional concerns. Participants will have the opportunity to ask the panelists questions at the end of the session.

Audience

The webcast is intended to interest staff and administrators involved with preservation activities. The presentation will be appropriate for group viewing and institutions may want to organize post-webcast discussions among interested staff.

Registration

The archive of this webcast is free. Please visit http://www.youtube.com/arladmin#p/u/1/7c9tLBH-vkQ.

More Information

The full text of the original report, "Safeguarding Collections at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Describing Roles & Measuring Contemporary Preservation Activities in ARL Libraries" is freely available at http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/safeguarding-collections.pdf.

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.