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Jane Hedberg P r e s e r v a t i o n  N e w s  

UMD/NARA conference 
The University of Maryland (UMD) and the 
National Archives and Records Administra­
tion (NARA) will hold Partnerships in Inno­
vation II: From Vision to Reality and Beyond, 
October 7–8, 2008, in College Park, Mary­
land. The conference will consider challeng­
es inherent in preserving electronic records 
and how universities, government agencies, 
and private sector entities can partner to ad­
dress them. Panels of experts will discuss 
NARA’s Electronic Records Archives System, 
standards and policies for Trusted Digital Re­
positories, lessons learned from institutional 
repositories, and DataNet: A Digital Preser­
vation Network for the Future. The fi rst day 
of the conference will take place at Archives 
II and the second day will take place on the 
UMD campus. 

Registration is $175 and $50 for students. 
For more information, contact the Electronic 
Records Archives Communications Team, 
NARA, College Park, Maryland; phone: (301) 
837­0704; e­mail: era.conference08@nara. 
gov; URL: archives.gov/era/presentations 
/innovations/it­conference08.html. 

Copyright and digital preservation 
The Library of Congress has released “Interna­
tional Study on the Impact of Copyright Law 
on Digital Preservation.” The 214­page report 
reviews copyright and related laws of Australia, 
the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the 
United States, and how those laws effect digital 
preservation of protected works. It also recom­
mends legislative and nonlegislative remedies 
for the constraints on digital preservation that 
exist under those laws. 

The report is available as a free PDF 
at www.digitalpreservation.gov/partners 
/resources/pubs/wipo_digital_preservation 
_fi nal_report2008.pdf. 

Jane Hedberg is preservation program offi  cer at Harvard 
University Library, e-mail: jane_hedberg@harvard.edu; 
fax: (617) 496-8344 

AV survey tool 
Columbia University Libraries has mounted 
“The Preservation Survey Tool for Audio and 
Moving Image Collections” and its accom­
panying instruction manual online. The tool 
facilitates collection of data about types and 
quantities of materials, physical condition 
of the materials and their housings, extent 
of intellectual control, status of intellectual 
property rights, and potential research val­
ue. These data are used to create a variety of 
general and collection­specific reports, and 
to determine preservation priorities. The 
tool is designed for easy use by librarians 
and archivists who do not have extensive 
audiovisual expertise. 

The URL for the tool and manual is 
www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services 
/preservation/audiosurvey.html. For addition­
al information, contact the Preservation and 
Digital Conversion Division, Columbia Univer­
sity Libraries; e­mail: preservation@libraries. 
cul.columbia.edu; Web: www.columbia.edu 
/cu/lweb/services/preservation/index.html. 

NPO leafl et 
The National Preservation Office (NPO) of 
the British Library has published “Caring for 
CDs and DVDs” as part of its “NPO Pres­
ervation Guidance Preservation in Practice 
Series.” The 15­page leaflet offers an over­
view of the structure of optical discs and 
the physical risks such media encounter 
in library and archival collections from the 
environment, processing procedures, and 
use. It also addresses technological obso­
lescence and suggests a strategy for migra­
tion to newer media or digital mass storage 
systems. 

It is available as a free PDF at www. 
bl.uk/services/npo/pdf/cd.pdf. Free printed 
copies are available on request from the 
National Preservation Office, phone: Tel: 
+44 (0)20 7412 7612; e­mail: npo@bl. 
uk; URL: http://www.bl.uk/services/npo 
/publicationsleaf.html. 

September 2008  495 C&RL News 

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