ALA Meeting Announcement DATE CORRECTION

["Geller, Marilyn" <mgeller@lesley.edu>]

Please note that this program is on Monday, June 26th.  While the 
day is correct, the date was misstated below.

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ALCTS Forum:  A conversation on Digital Preservation

Monday, June 25, 8 - 10 am, Morial Convention Center, Room 353/355

Preservation of e-journal content has become a pressing concern 
as more and more libraries drop print copies of journals to rely 
on their electronic counterparts. On September 13, 2005 a group 
of academic librarians, university administrators, and others 
participated in a meeting at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 
offices in New York where they discussed electronic journal 
preservation.  As a result of this important meeting, the 
document "Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Scholarly Electronic 
Journals" (http://www.diglib.org/pubs/waters051015.htm) was 
issued to the scholarly communications community at large.  The 
document has been endorsed by the Association of Research 
Libraries, ACRL, ALCTS, and the Medical Library Association, 
among others, and calls for action on four key points: * 
preservation of electronic journals is a kind of insurance * 
qualified preservation archives would provide a minimal set of 
well-defined services * libraries must invest in a qualified 
archiving solution * research and academic libraries and 
associated academic institutions must effectively demand archival 
deposit by publishers as a condition of licensing electronic 
journals

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Marilyn Geller
Collection Management Librarian
Lesley University Library
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: mgeller@lesley.edu