[Web4lib] Digital Directions Training Conference - May 27-29, San Diego, California - Discounts Available

[Julie Martin]

The Northeast Document Conservation Center Presents:
DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital
Collections

MAY 27-29, 2009
Westin San Diego
San Diego, California

RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW - REGISTER ONLINE AT: 
http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09.php
Registration Deadline: MAY 1

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ARE YOU PLANNING TO DIGITIZE A COLLECTION and want to learn where to
begin? Or are you already knee-deep in a digital project and you need to
know, NOW what?!!  At Digital Directions, a faculty of national experts
will lead you through the steps in creating and managing successful,
sustainable digital collections.

AT THE DIGITAL DIRECTIONS CONFERENCE, YOU WILL:

CONNECT WITH OTHER PARTICIPANTS from your state or institution type at a
networking luncheon on Day One (included in your registration fee).
Share ideas and discuss issues relating to the wide variety of digital
collections represented at the conference. 

LEARN WHAT WORKED - AND WHAT DIDN'T WORK - IN CASE STUDIES of recent
local digital projects, including municipal records for the City of San
Diego; local history collections at the South Pasadena Public Library
and the San Diego Historical Society; a century of botanical exploration
in Baja California at the San Diego Natural History Museum.

EXPLORE LOW-COST, HIGH-IMPACT PRESERVATION SERVICES that help ensure the
long-term accessibility of digital assets for cultural heritage
institutions - presented by Keynote Speaker Martin Halbert, Director of
the MetaArchive Cooperative. 

LEARN ABOUT HIGH-END REPLICA DIGITAL PRINTING with a panel of experts,
including R. Mac Holbert, co-founder of Nash Editions, one of the
premier fine art digital print studios in the country, and Stanley
Smith, Head of Imaging Services at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

SHARE THE "FUN" IN FUNDRAISING with Ginny Steel, University Librarian,
UC Santa Cruz, as she recounts her experience with the Grateful Dead
Archives and its vast and colorful collection that documents the band
from 1965 to the present.

GIVE A DAM with Stanley Smith, of the J. Paul Getty Museum as he
discusses why you need a Digital Asset Management system (DAM). It's one
thing to create thousands of digital images, but quite another to find
them again when you need them-and when you do find them you need to know
what you are looking at! Digital Asset Management (DAM) has achieved
buzzword status in the digital community, and the term is often evoked
in diverse and creative ways.

MEET THE LEADING PROVIDERS of digitization hardware, software, and
services at the Digital Directions Vendor Showcase and Spotlight
Sessions. (If you are a vendor interested in exhibiting at Digital
Directions, contact Julie Martin, jmartin at nedcc.org.)

FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT CONFERENCE CONTENT:
http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09.php
CONFERENCE SESSION ABSTRACTS:
http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09abs.php#dale2
FACULTY BIOS: http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09bio.php#dale

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CONFERENCE FEE: $700 (includes a Networking luncheon on Day 1 and the
Conference Reception) 
NEW!  Conference fee discounts are available:
STUDENTS: $595 with a valid student ID 
GROUPS of 3 or more from the same institution registering at the same
time: $595 each

NEDCC IS GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORT FROM the National Endowment for the
Humanities for the Center's preservation services. Any views, findings,
conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not
necessarily reflect those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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