Preservation Standing Committee
2007-2008 Annual Report
Submitted by Janice S. Anderson, Chair
Two programs that deal with the preservation of legal material will be held at the annual AALL meeting in Portland: one on print repositories and one that presents the work of a regional group that is preserving digital material: "The Chesapeake Project: One Model for Digital Preservation." A day-long workshop on "Managing Archive Collections" will take place on Saturday.
The 2008 Preservation and Binding Roundtable features Mary Grenci, Interim Head and Serials Team Leader of Metadata Services and Digital Projects at the University of Oregon Libraries, who will be speaking about preserving law reviews and providing access to them through institutional repositories, and the related roles of Technical Services librarians. The PreservationUpdates web site continues to be used for the posting of information about training opportunities, publications, and other announcements of interest in the area of preservation.
The Preservation Committee Chair gave a presentation on collaborative efforts to preserve legal information at the June 2008 meeting of the Joint Study Institute that is put on by AALL, BIALL, CALL/ACBD and ALLA.