Portico Participants’ Meeting at ALA
Portico Participants’ Meeting
ALA Annual Meeting
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Kevin Guthrie, President of ITHAKA, opened the meeting with a brief discussion of our organizational mission, current work, and future plans.
Our guest speaker, Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Library Digital Programs and Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center at the Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University, provided a perspective on what the obligation to preserve longevity of scholarly materials and future access across a wide range of digital and print materials means today and for the future.
Bruce Heterick, VP of Outreach & Participation Services, gave an update on Portico’s growth and glimpse into our plans for working with new content.
Evan Owens, VP of Content Management, discussed the range of technical approaches now being used at Portico to ensure the future accessibility of multiple content types.
Ken DiFiore, Associate Director of Outreach & Participation Services, provided an update on our study to evaluate the needs, approaches, and challenges for preserving digitized collections created at libraries or academic institutions.
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