Citation
Gelfand, J. (2002), "Other resources", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 19 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/lhtn.2002.23919dae.004
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2002, MCB UP Limited
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Other resources
CLIR Task Force Issues Wide-Ranging Preservation Report. In 1999, well before Nicholas Baker and his book, Doublefold brought sticky issues related to library collection retention and preservation to the public's attention, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) convened its own task force of scholars, librarians, and archivists to examine the preservation problem. Their findings are now available in the report, The Evidence at Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections, wide-ranging and sure to be an influential report, offering librarians a useful "framework for making or evaluating institutional preservation policies," according to Kathlin Smith, communications director for the CLIR. To view the report, visit: www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub103/pub103.pdf CLIR officials say that print copies will also soon be available for ordering through the Web site.
Harvard Libraries ReleaseE-Journal Archiving Study
The Harvard University Library has released a report addressing the feasibility of archiving e-journal articles. Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the study, E-Journal Archive DTD Feasibility Study, utilized the content from ten publishers, including commercial publishers Blackwell Science, Elsevier Science, Nature, and John Wiley & Sons, to determine the feasibility of creating a common structure capable of successfully archiving significant digital content. To read the full report, including recommendations about DTD design and development as well as deposit and retrieval, go to www.diglib.org/preserve/hadtdfs.pdf
From Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of CNI: "In my opening presentation at the CNI meeting, I mentioned the National Research Council report on Broadband, titled Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, which had just been released (I had the privilege of serving on the committee that wrote it)". This report is available online, along with various materials from the press conference announcing its release. If you go to http://www.nas.edu and enter "broadband" in the search box, you will find pointers to all of this material.
Prepared by Julia Gelfand(jgelfand@uci.edu), Applied Sciences Librarian, University of California, Irvine and co-editor, LHTN.