News

New PARcast: Electronic Records: The Archivist's 600-Pound Gorilla podcast with Jackie Dooley
Jackie Dooley, Head of Special Collections and Archives at University of California, Irvine and OCLC Programs and Research Consulting Archivist, talks with Merrilee Proffitt about the challenges of digital preservation, as well as some current efforts to that illustrate progress.
28 August 2008

Jackie Dooley Joins OCLC Programs and Research Staff as Consulting Archivist
Ms. Dooley is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of archives, visual materials, special collections and archival standards.
28 August 2008

Annual Highlights of the RLG Partnership and OCLC Programs and Research Now Available
Read this overview of significant initiatives undertaken from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008.
12 August 2008

RLG Programs at SAA; EAD@10 Event FREE for RLG Partners
RLG Partners are invited to attend the RLG Programs Roundtable and other events at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting August 26-30 in San Francisco, as well as receive free registration for the EAD @ 10 event on August 31.
04 August 2008

New Report: The Impact of Digitizing Special Collections on Teaching and Scholarship, by Merrilee Proffitt and Jennifer Schaffner
Subtitled, "Reflections on a Symposium about Digitization and the Humanities," the report consists of an overview and interpretation of perspecives provided at the RLG Programs symposium that was held in Philadelphia at the Chemical Heritage Foundation on 4 June 2008.
18 July 2008

New PARcast Available: The Cost of Owning Technology podcast with Ken Hamma
Ken Hamma, Executive Director for Digital Policy and Initiatives at the J. Paul Getty Trust, talks with Gunter Waibel about how owning technology requires significant ongoing investment, but various options exist that can bring down costs and lead to a more collaborative future.
7 July 2008

New PARcast: Strategically Embracing Technology podcast with MacKenzie Smith
MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, talks with Merrilee Proffitt about shifting resources to develop and implement new services.
3 July 2008

New PARcast: Access Improvement podcast with Dennis Meissner
Dennis Meissner, Head of Collections Management at the Minnesota Historical Society, talks with Merrilee Proffitt about how to invest resources wisely to best serve audience needs, as well as the importance of self-study.
 1 July 2008

RLG Programs releases "Seeking Sustainability," a casual report on RLG's exploration of ways to make access to digitized special collections self-supporting
The report, which is available in PDF from the OCLC Web site, was prepared by RLG Program Officer Ricky Erway.
10 June 2008