We are excited to host a number of events in celebration of ALA’s Preservation Week (April 21-27, 2013) here at the Library of Congress next week. We’ve collaborated with the Preservation Directorate and the Veteran’s History Project on programs to provide in-person guidance and help to those interested in saving their personal collections — digital and analog correspondence, photos, videos, and scrapbooks and albums.
This year’s special focus is on saving the mementos of military members and their families. The Project designed a special web presentation for Preservation Week highlighting the stories of seven veterans. This collection represents the wide variety of concerns that must be addressed when preserving these personal accounts.
We’re also pleased to co-host the Rosenzweig Forum on Technology and the Humanities on Monday, April 22. The Rosenzweig Forum for the Digital Humanities is a collaboration of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland.
A brief list of our Preservation Week activities is below. The full list, including descriptions of each program, can be found on our website and in the Library’s press release.
A full list of national activities can be seen at Preservation Week’s online map and followed on Twitter via @PreservationWk. And if you tweet, don’t forget to use the Preservation Week hashtag: #preswk.
Preservation Week Events
- Monday, April 22, from noon to 1:30 p.m., “Preserving Your Memories: Print and Digital Photographs” Dining Room A, on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C.
- Monday, April 22, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., “Rosenzweig Forum on Technology and the Humanities: Preserving and Interpreting Born-Digital Collections:” Mumford Room, on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C
- Tuesday, April 23, from noon to 2:00 p.m., “These Amazing Shadows: The Movies that Made America”—Film: Pickford Theater, on the third of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C
- Wednesday, April 24, from noon to 1 p.m., “Preserving Your Memories: Traditional and Digital Albums and Scrapbooks:” Dining Room A, on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C.
- Wednesday, April 24, 2 p.m. EDT, Webinar: “Preserving Your Personal Digital Photographs:” Free, but registration required at www1.gotomeeting.com/register/876436809.
- Friday, April 26, from noon to 1 p.m., “PAC: A Packed Agenda for Conserving Libraries’ Heritage — 20 Years of Changes and Development”—Lecture:” Pickford Theater, on the third of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C