ALA Annual ProgramL LOCKSS, June 26, 1:30-3:30pm

[Junus, Ranti]

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Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) : A Solution for Archiving and Accessing Web Materials

ALA Annual, Orlando
Date: Saturday, June 26, 2004
Time: 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Location: Renaissance Orlando Resort, Crystal Ballroom E

Librarians have always been concerned with ensuring permanent access to our collections.  We know that easy access to information often depends on redundancy - i.e., "lots of copies".  The shift to electronic materials that are often leased rather than owned has increased our concerns about long-term access.

A new system called LOCKSS enables libraries to collect and locally store, preserve, and archive authorized content by creating low-cost, persistent digital caches of authoritative versions of web-based content.  Through LOCKSS, librarians have the opportunity to retain local control of electronic content while preserving its original functionality.

This program, co-sponsored by the ALCTS Serials Section Education Committee and the LITA Open Source Systems Interest Group, will present an overview of LOCKSS, including its philosophy, technology, and current development.  The program will explain why LOCKSS is so important, what it can do for libraries, and how libraries can participate.  The featured speaker will be Thomas Robertson, Technical Manager, LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries and Academic Resources.  He will be followed by two panelists, Martin Halbert (Director for Library Systems, Emory University) and Thomas Izbicki (Collection Development Coordinator, Johns Hopkins University).  Jeffrey Horrell (Associate Librarian of Harvard College Collections, Harvard University) will serve as moderator. A special thank-you goes to Kluwer Academic Publishers for their generous support of this program. 

We hope that librarians who work in collection development, serials/acquisitions, metadata and digital resources, preservation, systems, or library administration, as well as publishers and information vendors- really, anyone interested in long-term access to electronic resources - will be able to attend. 

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Ranti Junus - Systems
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