Archiving: Action Report from ALA midwinter 1/21/06
Challenge 5 Archiving: Action Report
Karen Schmidt (Illinois)
Next Steps: Karen Schmidt and Melissa Trevvett will co-chair this working group. Members of the Working Group are:
The group plans to revise the statement that addresses the challenge, bring it to the New Orleans ALA meeting, and then agree on the next steps in this area.
The Archiving Working Group plans to revise its statement addressing the 5th Challenge: Archiving by:
1. Incorporating comments from the general discussion of the collection development officers present
• to emphasize the need to communicate about the various initiatives in print and digital archiving,
• to register the concern about paying twice for archiving of electronic information: once to the publishers and again to the archiving agency.
2. Revising the draft statement
• to ensure that more attention is given to archiving of born-digital material;
• to try to develop a way to include the Library of Congress’s holdings, U.S. and many foreign imprints, into print archive planning despite the fact that the Library cannot commit to becoming a dark archive;
• to re-work the document so that it addresses the challenge in a way that highlights the interdependencies of the kinds of archiving, points out the common elements, but recognizes the unique differences.
• to connect the archiving with the Recon challenge.