ALA 2009 Annual: The Open Knowledge Commons and Library Collections: The Other Scan Plan

[John Vickery <john_vickery@ncsu.edu>]

(Please excuse any cross postings)

Please join us for the panel discussion: "The Open Knowledge 
Commons and Library Collections: The Other Scan Plan"

When: Sat. July 11th, 10:30am - 12pm

Where: McCormick Place West W-179

About the program:

There's more to large scale digitization than Google. The Open 
Knowledge Commons (growing out of the Open Content Alliance) 
offers both an alternative and a complement to the Google Books 
Library Project. Along with the Internet Archive, the OKC 
represents the collaborative efforts of cultural, technology, 
nonprofit, and governmental organizations to build a permanent 
archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content.

Panelists:

Maura Marx, Executive Director, Open Knowledge Commons
Betsy Kruger, Associate Professor, Digital Content Creation, The
  University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heather Christenson, Mass Digitization Project Manager, California
  Digital Library

The program is presented by the ALCTS/CMDS Administration of 
Collection Development Committee

Hope to see you there!

John Vickery
Collection Manager for Management & Social Sciences
NCSU Libraries, Box 7111
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695
john_vickery@ncsu.edu