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Meetings

July 13, 2008, Portland, OR:
Sunday, noon - 1:15 p.m. Draft Agenda is available.

Earlier Meetings

January 3, 2008, New York, NY:
The LIPA meeting was held at the Columbia Law School in association with the annual meeting of AALS in New York. See Meeting Notes.

July 2007, New Orleans:
(1) July 15 Program: Report on Chesapeake Project; Reports on print repositories.
(2) July 16 Business Meeting: Meeting Notes.

January 5, 2007, Washington, DC:
Georgetown University Law Library hosted the meeting during AALS. See Notes from the meeting.

July 2006, St. Louis:
(1) Program on the OCLC Digital Archive, presentation by Judith Cobb, OCLC. The OCLC Digital Archive is one of several services under consideration to provide support for a digital preservation project for legal resources. The OCLC service is standards-based; and it provides a platform to capture, manage and provide access to archived digital content.
(2) Business Meeting - Notes

January 2006, Washington, DC:
The meeting was held at Georgetown Law Center. Notes from the meeting.

July 2005, San Antonio:
(1) Presentation by Judith Cobb, OCLC, on the White Paper on Preserving Legal Materials in Digital Formats.
(2) Business Meeting - Notes and Status Report on a LIPA Dark Archive.

January 2005, San Francisco: Notes from the meeting; and
Notes from a separate, paper-oriented meeting.

July 2004, Boston: LIPA members agreed to amend and adopt a governance proposal that creates an Executive Committee and that gives each member institution one vote on policy decisions. Hope Breeze reported on the details of the Inventory Project, which will result in a database and an analysis of the results. Tom Clareson reported that a contract has been signed with OCLC for the development of a White Paper to inform LIPA members as they serve as advocates for the preservation of legal information. Terry Martin offered to use Harvard resources to conduct the first election of officers.

January 2004, Atlanta: Notes from the meeting.

July 2003, Seattle: The LIPA Steering Committee met and determined the next steps to be taken. S.C. members agreed that a half-time Executive Director would be hired and that this individual would begin to draft a white paper, to coordinate an inventory of all the states, and to approach funding agencies. The S.C. discussed the issue of a permanent structure for LIPA, which might be affiliated with a library group or which might be independent. A draft document will be presented to the LIPA membership by the annual AALL meeting next year on how best to do this. At a meeting of LIPA members, the importance of having relevant educational programs was discussed; and Carol Billings and Tom Clareson agreed to come up with program ideas to submit for the Boston meeting of AALL.

The Founding of LIPA

March 2003, Washington, DC:
Georgetown University Law Library and the American Association of Law Libraries sponsored a conference, "Preserving Legal Information for the 21st Century: Toward a National Agenda." The objectives of the conference were to develop a national agenda for preserving our legal heritage, to develop an action plan for implementation on a cooperative basis, and to build consensus and commitment among the participants. The conference participants developed a national agenda outline that covered Purpose, Content to be Preserved, Infrastructure, Standards, Collaboration/ Partnerships and Sustainability. To carry out this agenda, they agreed to establish a new organization, the Legal Information Preservation Alliance.
 • Conference Report