Conference: Persistence of Memory

“A conference presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center Co-sponsored by the American Library Association, the Center for Research Libraries, and the Society of American Archivists”

This conference is focusing on a variety of topics related to the management of the archival materials produced by entities such as our own NUAMPS Digitization Studio.  It is providing an in-depth view for me, as a producer of digital materials, of the inner workings of the variety of systems housing digital collections once they are created, and the challenges that lie ahead in the world of archival preservation.  The archivists and librarians in attendance here at the Grand Ballroom of the InterContinental Hotel (Chicago) are a fine group of people, though much less formally dressed than the meeting of marketing executives down the hall…