Principles and Practices for Digital Preservation

AALL Members - $30; Non-AALL Members - $60; 
Site Registration (one per physical location) $150

Digital preservation deserves significant attention in this information age. Digital materials have a shorter lifespan and are more fragile than paper-based resources. Please join Fang Wang, Reference and Special Collection Services Librarian at St. Mary's University School of Law and certified Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Trainer on Thursday, August 29 at 11 a.m. central as she outlines six principles and practices for preserving digital materials. Learn answers to questions about preserving legal information in the digital format, steps to protect your digital content and provisions for long term access and management.

Program participants will learn:

• Digital preservation basics in law libraries
• Principles and practices of digital preservation 
• Learn how digital content should stored for long term access

Speaker: 

Fang Wang received her MSIS from Florida State University. Currently, she is the Special Collection Services and Reference Librarian at St. Mary’s University Law Library in San Antonio, Texas. She previously worked at Texas Tech University Law Library for four years as the Digital Information Librarian managing various digital projections and the institutional repository. She was a graduate in the inaugural class of the Library of Congress' Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) program on teaching digital preservation.

Moderator:

Margaret K. Maes
Executive Director     
Legal Information Preservation Alliance

This webinar is sponsored by the American Association of Law Libraries and the Legal Information Preservation Alliance.