Assessing Options for Large Collections
Date: March 15, 2011
Background: The Library of Congress has a long history of implementing state-of-the-art options for maximizing care and access for large collections. (Mass Deacidification Annotated Bibliography 1990-2010 [PDF: 507 KB / 76 p.]) The Library is at the midpoint of its 35-year "One Generation" Mass Deacidification Program to treat 35 million items. It continues to construct multiple low-temperature/high-density remote storage repositories slated to eventually hold 25 million items. At the same time, the Library has an active digital conversion program of legacy collections for electronic access, which, along with acquisition of electronic copyright deposit, electronic serials and other digital assets, continues to expand its digital holdings. This symposium reviewed current best-practice preservation options of mass deacidification and environmental control for preserving large-scale legacy collections, and addressed current best-practice options for managing and preserving large-scale digital collections. Leaders knowledgeable about these options, including lifecycle costs, provided this overview.
Program Schedule
View video (part 1) (2:19:47 hours)
| Time Marker | Topic and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 00:00 | Welcome Deanna B. Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress Charles J. Henry, President, Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, DC Dianne van der Reyden, Director for Preservation, Library of Congress |
| 00:32 | Long-term Effectiveness of Mass Deacidification I - Library of Congress Perspective Kenneth E. Harris, Former Preservation Projects Director, Library of Congress Chandru J. Shahani, Former Chief, Preservation Research & Testing Division, Library of Congress Jeanne Drewes, Chief, Binding & Collections Care Division and Program Manager, Mass Deacidification, Library of Congress |
| 01:00 | Long-term Effectiveness of Mass Deacidification II - European Perspective Jana Kolar, Director General of Science and Technology, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Slovenia |
| 01:20 | Low-temperature/High-density Repositories Steven J. Herman, Chief, Collections Access, Loan & Management Division, Library of Congress Matthew J. Sheehy, Assistant Director of the Harvard Library for the Harvard Depository, Cambridge, MA |
View video (part 2) (2:22:18 hours)
| 00:00 | Large-scale and Mass Digitization Repositories I Mark Sweeney, Chief, Serial & Government Publications Division, Library of Congress John Price Wilkin, Associate University Librarian for Library Information Technology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Executive Director, HathiTrust |
| 00:54 | Economic Sustainability of Mass Deacidification, Low-temperature Storage, and Large-scale Digitization Steven Puglia, Preservation and Imaging Specialist, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD |
| 01:22 | Panel Discussion: Decision Making Moderator: Dianne van der Reyden, Director for Preservation, Library of Congress Panelists: Lee Dirks, Director of Education & Scholarly Communication, Microsoft Research Team, Redmond, WA Maria Esteva, Research Associate, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Art Conservation Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE |
