The following press release may be of interest to list members.
Library of Congress To Launch New Corps of Digital Preservation Trainers
The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education program at the Library of
Congress will hold its first national train-the-trainer workshop on September
20-23, 2011, in Washington, DC.
The DPOE Baseline Workshop will produce a corps of trainers who are equipped to
teach others, in their home regions across the U.S., the basic principles and
practices of preserving digital materials. Examples of such materials include
websites; emails; digital photos, music, and videos; and official records.
The 24 students in the workshop (first in a projected series) are professionals
from a variety of backgrounds who were selected from a nationwide applicant
pool to represent their home regions, and who have at least some familiarity
with community-based training and with digital preservation. They will be
instructed by the following subject matter experts:
* Nancy McGovern, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research, University of Michigan
* Robin Dale, LYRASIS
* Mary Molinaro, University of Kentucky Libraries
* Katherine Skinner, Educopia Institute and MetaArchive Cooperative
* Michael Thuman, Tessella
* Helen Tibbo, School of Information and Library Science, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Society of American Archivists.
The curriculum has been developed by the DPOE staff and expert volunteer
advisors and informed by DPOE-conducted research―including a nationwide
needs-assessment survey and a review of curricula in existing training
programs. An outcome of the September workshop will be for each participant to,
in turn, hold at least one basic-level digital-preservation workshop in his or
her home U.S. region by mid-2012.
The intent of the workshop is to share high-quality training in digital
preservation, based upon a standardized set of core principles, across the
nation. In time, the goal is to make the training available and affordable to
virtually any interested organization or individual.
The Library's September 2011 workshop is invitation-only, but informational and
media inquiries are welcome to George Coulbourne, DPOE Program Director, at
g...@loc.gov.
The Library created DPOE in 2010. Its mission is to foster national outreach
and education to encourage individuals and organizations to actively preserve
their digital content, building on a collaborative network of instructors,
contributors and institutional partners. The DPOE website is
www.loc.gov/dpoe<http://digitalpreservation.gov/education/>.
George Coulbourne
Executive Program Officer
Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI)
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