LIBR 259-2
PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT
Dr. Katherine Skinner
Faculty webpage: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/people/faculty/skinnerk/skinnerk.php
Email katherine.skinner@metaarchive.org (LIBR 259 in the subject field, please)
Phone: 404-783-2534 (emergencies only; no calls after 9pm EST please)
Other contact points: Oovoo/Skype (katherine.skinner)
Office Hours: Every Friday, 2-4 ET in Elluminate or by appointment
Contact Guidelines
For general/technical matters: Course Discussion in Angel (Student Lounge)
For personal matters related to the course: Email instructor via Angel
For emergencies BEFORE 9pm EST: Phone
Oovoo chat: use anytime you see me online
All course material will be presented in ANGEL in weekly learning units. The units will be opened
sequentially each week. The site will be available on Monday, 23 August 2010 by noon ET, and you may
enroll starting that day. An enrollment code will be sent to you via MySJSU. Please enroll by Friday, 27
August, 2010.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course will provide a broad foundation in the historical, theoretical, managerial, analytical, and
practical aspects of preservation, through the perspective of a practicing digital preservation
administrator. The class will introduce students to both technical and conceptual issues in the
preservation of library and archival materials. About a quarter of the class will be dedicated to analog
preservation issues, over half to digital preservation management, and the remaining portion will
address issues that relate to both.
“Digital preservation,” “digital archiving,” and “digital curation” are all terms that relate to the long‐term
management of electronic data created by various institutional, governmental, and corporate entities.
These concepts will be discussed in the context of e‐government, e‐commerce, education and research,
e‐heritage, digital libraries, and personal archival collections.
The preservation field is evolving rapidly, and some technical knowledge is necessary to understand the
implications of this evolution. Therefore, a few modules will offer an overview of key technical concepts.
Readings and lectures will provide an:
 Overview of preservation history and the development of preservation as a discipline;
 Awareness of the importance of appropriate environmental factors for long‐term management of
library and archival collections; ‐ an understanding of text in a historical context and as a stable
preservation method;
 Overview of the origination and implications of microfilming, mass de-acidification, and scanning as
“preservation methods”;
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Examination of OAIS, PREMIS, TRAC, and other preservation tools and models;
Comparison of digital preservation activities in public, academic, and corporate library and archives
settings, as well as how these differ to traditional preservation activities;
Understanding of the practice of digital curation;
Introduction to preservation management topics, including economic issues, planning, staffing, and
policy development;
Fundamentals of disaster preparedness and response; and
Awareness of current digital repositories and systems.
Students learn best through active engagement with the course materials. In addition to weekly
readings from professional literature, this course will feature weekly "lectures" ‐ a combination of text,
multimedia and activities ‐ that will provide further information on the week's topic and engage you in
thinking about and working with the course materials.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Student Learning Outcomes
Through lectures, readings, discussions, and assignments, students will learn to:
 Summarize why analog and digital library and archival materials deteriorate;
 Locate information about and employ treatment and reformatting options for library and archival
materials;
 Identify key concepts in digital preservation, including the OAIS model and “digital curation” and
emerging digital preservation standards such as PREMIS and TRAC;
 Evaluate current digital preservation repositories and networks;
 Describe the technical challenges to sustainability and long-term access;
 Identify and implement elements of comprehensive preservation plans and workable preservation
policies for libraries and archives for analog and digital collections;
 Locate information about and employ disaster prevention and response strategies for analog and
digital collections;
 Recognize and appreciate preservation as one of the central management functions in libraries and
archives, and explore the interdependencies between library departments;
 Identify, interpret, and evaluate information sources on preservation available through publications
and organizations, including technical standards, development tools, scientific and administrative
research reports, and advocacy literature.
Assignments and Core Competencies
The assignments of this course explicitly support the following MLIS Core Competencies:
 Book Soaking: Use the basic concepts and principles related to the creation, evaluation, selection,
acquisition, preservation and organization of specific items or collections of information;
 Wik-tionary: Demonstrate oral and written communication skills necessary for group work,
collaborations and professional level presentations.
 Personal Digital Curation: Use the basic concepts and principles related to the creation, evaluation,
selection, acquisition, preservation and organization of specific items or collections of information;
 Final Paper: Demonstrate proficiency in the use of current information and communication
technologies, and other related technologies, as they affect the resources and uses of libraries and
other types of information providing entities and Understand the nature of research, research
methods and research findings; retrieve, evaluate and synthesize scholarly and professional
literature for informed decision-making by specific client groups.
Core Competencies
LIBR 250 supports the following MLIS Core Competencies:
 Apply the fundamental principles of planning, management, and marketing/advocacy
 Use the basic concepts and principles related to the creation, evaluation, selection, acquisition,
preservation, and organization of specific items or collections of information;
 Evaluate programs and services on specified criteria;
 Demonstrate proficiency in the use of current information and communication technologies, and
other related technologies, as they affect the resources and uses of libraries and other types of
information providing entities.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
Mode of Instruction
This course is asynchronous, meaning that students will be able to complete readings, “attend” lectures
(provided via recording), and participate in class discussions at their own pace during each week of the
course.
Our course does contain an optional “Live Chat” every Friday from 2-4 ET, and students are encouraged
to join these sessions to share questions and insights with each other and your professor. The
discussions that occur in this environment are often substantive, and as such, are recorded and made
available to students who are not able to attend.
Course Organization
The Angel course site is divided into two main sections: “Course” (Course Information) and “Lessons”
(Weekly Units).
Course (Course Information) contains info essential to your success in the course, such as our syllabus,
details on assignments, assignment submission deadlines, discussion/participation requirements, point
distribution and grade scale, as well as our discussion mailbox. Be sure to familiarize yourself with this
section carefully as you are expected to know all of the course requirements and policies and will be
held accountable for the information. Failing to familiarize yourself with these details early in the course
can negatively impact your ability to excel in the course.
Lessons (Weekly Units) include details about the work you are expected to complete each week,
including: reading assignments, questions to keep in mind while you are reading, learning objectives,
audio/video lectures, lecture notes, and assignments (including discussion participation).
TEXTBOOKS AND READINGS
Required Readings
There is no required textbook for this course, and all of your readings will be available via the Web,
either through citation (for articles available through SJSU’s databases), reserved readings (available to
you using your King Library account) or through openly available websites. Readings will be posted on
the Angel course site and are listed in the syllabus. In addition to completing your readings, you will
often need to also “analyze” websites, “do” an online activity, or “watch” audio/video lectures.
Students should complete all weekly readings, website analysis, online activities, and videos in advance
of their “Live Chat” session participation on Thursdays at 3-5 ET.
Recommended Reading
No academic librarian or person interested in preservation issues should miss the popular, controversial
book about preservation, and especially preservation microfilming, seen from the point of view of a
dedicated library user and novelist: Baker, Nicholson. (2001) Double Fold: The Assault on Paper by
Libraries. New York: Doubleday.
Comments and issues arising from Double Fold will be addressed in class discussions.
ASSIGNMENTS
All due dates, detailed requirements, and grading information for assignments are available on our
Angel course site. Assignments will total 600 points
Book Soaking Exercise (100 points, Due Sept. 10)
This activity requires you to soak any book of your choosing and then attempt to save it through
a drying method of your choice. You will write a four‐page description of the exercise, including
your drying method and the results.
Creating a “Wiktionary” of Digital Preservation Terms (100 points, Due Oct. 8)
This assignment will require each group member to individually define a list of important terms
related to digital preservation. The group will then decide together which of their individual
definitions best describes the terms. The group will post their final set of terms on the course
wiki. Terms will be provided by the instructor.
Personal Digital Curation Activity (100 points, Due Nov. 12)
This assignment involves selecting, managing, and ensuring the sustainability of and access to a
digital collection for the duration of the semester.
Discussion Forums Participation (100 pts: 10 points per weekly discussion [10 weeks])
Everyone is expected to participate vigorously in course discussions. Participating in the class is
part of the learning experience, as the discussions and activities are designed to help you
understand and master course content. The diversity of experiences you bring to the course is
what makes our discussions interesting – so we need to hear from everyone, please. There is no
graded discussion during the first week of the course, weeks when assignments are due, and the
final week of the course.
Final Research Paper (200 points; group work 100 points, individual work 100 points, Due Dec. 10)
Information on this assignment will be posted in Angel within the first few weeks of the course.
Assignment Submission
Assignments must be double‐spaced using a 12‐point font, and utilize a one‐inch margin on all sides.
They must be submitted by 11:59 pm ET on the day that they are due using the Angel drop box provided
in the relevant weekly module. 10 points per day will be deducted for assignments that are turned in
after the due date without prior approval.
If your life circumstances require that you request an extension, please do so at least a week before the
assignment due date. No extensions will be granted for discussion posts or for the “Wiktionary”
definitions assignment because students are dependent on each others’ work in these cases.
Grading Scale
The standard SJSU SLIS Grading Scale is utilized for all SLIS courses:
97‐100 A
94‐96 A‐
91‐93 B+
88‐90 B
85‐87 B‐
82‐84 C+
79‐81 C
76‐78 C‐
73‐75 D+
70‐72 D
67‐69 D‐
Below 67 F
In order to provide consistent guidelines for assessment for graduate level work in the School, these
terms are applied to letter grades:
 C represents Adequate work; a grade of "C" counts for credit for the course.
 B represents Good work; a grade of "B" clearly meets the standards for graduate level work; For
core courses — LIBR 200, LIBR 202, LIBR 204 — SLIS requires that students earn a B in the course. If
a student does not earn a B they will need to retake the course.
 A represents Exceptional work; a grade of "A" will be assigned for outstanding work only.
Students are advised that it is their responsibility to maintain a Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0.
Academic Integrity
Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at San José State University, and
the University's Academic Integrity Policy requires you to be honest in all your academic course work.
Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the Office of
Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The policy on academic integrity can be found at
http://sa.sjsu.edu/student_conduct
Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, please e‐mail me as soon as
possible. Presidential Directive 97‐03 requires that students with disabilities register with the Disability
Resource Center (DRC) to establish record of their disability.
No matter where students reside, they should contact the SJSU DRC to register. The DRC Web site:
http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/
WEEKLY UNITS
UNIT ONE: INTRODUCTION AND BASIC PRESERVATION CONCEPTS (AUG 25-AUG 27)
Assignments
Book Soaking Exercise
DUE: Friday, September 10, 11:59pm ET
Readings
 Angel Course Interface, Greensheet, Syllabus
 Chodorow, Stanley. 2006. “To Represent Us Truly: The Job and Context of Preserving the Cultural
Record.” Libraries & the Cultural Record 41:3
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/libraries_and_culture/v041/41.3chodorow.html
UNIT TWO: PRESERVATION AND ITS HISTORY (AUG 28-SEPT 3)
Readings
 O’Toole, James M. “On the Idea of Permanence,” American Archivist 52 (Winter, 1989), 10-25. In
American Archival Studies: Readings in Theory and Practice, ed. Randall C. Jimerson. Chicago: Society
of American Archivist, 2000, 475-94. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40293309 (via King Library)
 Darling, Pamela W. and Sherelyn Ogden. “From Problem Perceived to Programs in Practice: the
Preservation of Library Resources in the U.S.A., 1956-1980,” Library Resources and Technical
Services 25 (1981), 9-29.
 Cloonan, Michele Valerie. 2010. Conservation and Preservation of Library and Archival Materials,
Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition pp. 1250-1268. Available online
through the SJSU online catalog.
 Heritage Preservation and Institute of Museum and Library Services. A Public at Risk: The
Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections (SUMMARY). Washington,
DC: Heritage Preservation, Inc., 2005.
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/HHI/HHIsummary.pdf
 Meyer, Lars. Safeguarding Collections at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Describing Roles &
Measuring Contemporary Preservation Activities in ARL Libraries. Washington, DC: ARL, 2009.
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/safeguarding-collections.pdf
 Darnton, Robert. 2008. “The Library in the New Age.” New York Review of Books.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21514
 Lynch, Clifford. 2005. “Where do we go from here? The next decade in Digital Libraries.” DLib
Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/lynch/07lynch.html
More on this Topic (not required)
 O’Donnell, James J. “St. Augustine to NREN: The Tree of Knowledge and How It Grows.” Paper
delivered to the North American Serials Interest Group, 1992. O’Donnell makes it available on his
website at Georgetown, where he is provost. http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/nasig.html
 Heritage Preservation and Institute of Museum and Library Services. A Public at Risk: The
Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s Collections. Washington, DC: Heritage
Preservation, Inc., 2005. https://www.heritagepreservation.org/HHI/full.html
UNIT THREE: ENVIRONMENT AND CARE (SEPT 4-10)
DUE: Assignment #1, Book Soaking Exercise (Sept 10, 11:59pm ET)
Section 1: Disaster
Readings
 Clarkson, Christopher. 2003. “The Florence Flood of November 1966 & its aftermath.” National Diet
Library of Japan. http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/publication/ndl_newsletter/135/Lecture0312-1.pdf
 Ellis, Jamie. 2007. “Lessons learned: the recovery of a research collection after Hurricane Katrina.”
Collections Building 26:4, pp.108-111.
 Ogden, Sherelyn. 2007. “Protection from Loss: Water and Fire Damage, Biological Agents, Theft, and
Vandalism.” NEDCC.
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/3Emergency_Management/01ProtectionFromLoss.php
 Buchanan, Sally. 2007. “Emergency Salvage of Wet Books and Records.”
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/3Emergency_Management/06SalvageWetBooks.php
 Albright, Gary. 2007. “Emergency Salvage of Wet Photographs.”
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/3Emergency_Management/07SalvageWetPhotos.php
 Lindblom Patkus, Beth. 2007. “Emergency Salvage of Moldy Books and Paper.”
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/3Emergency_Management/08SalvageMoldyBooks.php
Video
 1968. “The Restoration of books.” Royal College of Art, London.
http://data.scl.utah.edu/fmi/xsl/stream/details.xsl?-recid=354 [Film about the Florence flood.]
Section 2: Building and environment
 2007. “Environmental Specifications for the Storage of Library & Archival Materials.” Lyrasis.
http://www.lyrasis.org/Preservation/Resources%20and%20Publications/Environmental%20Specific
ations.aspx
 “Monitoring Temperature and Relative Humidity.” NEDCC Leaflet 2:2.
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/2The_Environment/02TemperatureAndHumidity.php
 2003. “Invasion of the Giant Mold Spore.” Lyrasis.
http://www.lyrasis.org/Preservation/Resources%20and%20Publications/Invasion%20of%20the%20
Giant%20Mold%20Spore.aspx
 “Integrated Pest Management.” NEDCC Leaflet 3:10.
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/3Emergency_Management/10PestManagement.php
Section 3: Care and handling
Readings
 Care and Handling of Library Materials.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/preservation/chlm/index.html
 “Care of Library Collections: A Role for Everyone.” UC San Diego, Preservation Department.
http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/preservation/libcoll.html
 2006. “Guidelines for the Security of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and other Special Collections,”
American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries.
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/securityrarebooks.cfm
 “Human enemies.” New York University Preservation Department.
http://library.nyu.edu/preservation/exhibits/presexh/human.htm
Video
 Murder in the Stacks.
https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/cu/lbraries/bts/preservation/care/index.html
UNIT 4: MICROFILM, AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS (SEPT 11-17)
Assignments
Creating a “Wiktionary” of Digital Preservation Terms
DUE: Friday, October 8, 11:59pm ET
Readings
 O’Donnell, James. 1994. “The Virtual Library: An Idea Whose Time Has Passed,” in Okerson and
Mogge, edd., Gateways, Gatekeepers and Roles in the Information Omniverse, (Washington DC).
http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/jod/virtual.html
 “[Paper] Collection.” Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Georgia Institute of Technology.
http://ipst.gatech.edu/amp/collection/index.htm
 Zachary, Shannon. 2002. “Mass deacidification in 2002 and the University of Michigan experience.”
ARL bimonthly report 224. pp. 6-9. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/massdeacid1.pdf
 “Microfilm and Microfiche.” NEDCC Leaflet 6:1.
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/6Reformatting/01MicrofilmAndMicrofiche.php
 Baker, Nicholson. 2001. “Chapter 34: Turn the Pages Once” from Double Fold: Libraries and the
Assault on Paper. On reserve at King Library.
 Burkel, Russ. 2003. “The role of microfilm in information management.” Information Management
Journal. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/_/print/PrintArticle.aspx?id=97393131
 Smith, Abby. 1999. “Why Digitize?” Council on Library and Information Resources.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub80-smith/pub80.html
 Edmondson, Ray. 2004. Audiovisual archiving: philosophy and principles. Paris: UNESCO. chp. 5
Preservation, pp. 44-51. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001364/136477e.pdf
 Van Bogart, John. 1995. Magnetic tape storage and handling. Washington, D.C.: Commission on
Preservation and Access and the National Media Laboratory, chapters 1-2, 4.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub54/index.html
 “Chapter 2, Understanding film and how it decays,” Film preservation guide, 6-18.
http://www.filmpreservation.org (click on Preservation Basics, then Film Preservation Guide)
 Videotape identification and assessment guide. Texas Commission on the Arts. Read sections “How
can I identify a video format and know its characteristics?,” “What are the risks to video materials?,”
“What conservation actions should be taken if the video is at risk?,” and “Glossary.”
http://www.arts.state.tx.us/video
 Gulie, Steven. “Saved: What Death Can't Destroy and How to Digitize It,” Wired, Issue 6.09
September, 1998, 98-104. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.09/saved.html
Video
 Slow Fires. Link to video available in “Week Four” folder in Angel.
 Into the Future. Link to video available in “Week Four” folder in Angel.
UNIT FIVE: INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL PRESERVATION (SEPT 25-OCT 1)
Module One: Saga of the Domesday Book; Overview and General Digital Preservation
Concepts
Readings
 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services’s definitions of Digital Preservation
(prepared by the ALCTS Preservation and Reformatting Section, Working Group on Defining Digital
Preservation) http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/resources/preserv/defdigpres0408.cfm
 Conway, Paul. 1996. “Preservation in the Digital World.” CLIR.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/
 Hedstrom, Margaret. 1998. “Digital Preservation: A Time Bomb for Digital Libraries,” Computers and
the Humanities, 189-202.
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42573/1/10579_2004_Article_153071.pdf
 Marcum, Deanna, Friedlander, Amy. 2003. “Keepers of the Crumbling Culture: What Digital
Preservation Can Learn from Library History.” D-Lib Magazine.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may03/friedlander/05friedlander.html
 Piller, Charles. 2006. “Unable to Repeat the Past,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2006.
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/sep/13/business/fi-archive13
 Rothenberg, Jeff. “Avoiding Technological Quicksand: Finding a Viable Technical Foundation for
Digital Preservation,” CLIR Reports, January 1999.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/rothenberg/contents.html
 Thibodeau, Kenneth. “Overview of Technological Approaches to Digital Preservation and Challenges
in Coming Years.” Conference Proceedings, The State of Digital Preservation: An International
Perspective, Washington, D.C., April 24-25, 2002.
www.clir.org/PUBS/reports/pub107/thibodeau.html
 Abbot, Daisy. 2003. “Overcoming the dangers of technological obsolescence: Rescuing the BBC
Domesday project.” DigiCult.info, issue 4: p.7-10.
http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicult_new
sletter_issue4_highres.pdf
 Harvey, Ross. “So where’s the black hole in our collective memory? A Provocative Position Paper
(PPP),” Digital Preservation Europe, December 16, 2007.
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu/publications/position/Ross_Harvey_black_hole_PPP.pdf
Video
 Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation. DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbBa6Oam7-w
Module Two: Bits & Bytes: An Introduction to Digital Preservation Technology
Readings
 “Computers: Bits & bytes.” OpenLearn LabSpace, Chapters 2-5.
http://labspace.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3688
 David S. H. Rosenthal, "Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem?", International Journal of Digital
Curation, vol. 1, no.5. http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/viewFile/151/224
UNIT SIX: GOALS AND STRATEGIES OF DIGITAL PRESERVATION (OCT 2-8)
DUE: Assignment #2, Creating a “Wiktionary” of Digital Preservation Terms (Oct 8, 11:59pm ET)
Readings
 2003. Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage. UNESCO.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001300/130071e.pdf
 Lavoie, Brian, Dempsey, Lorcan. 2004. “Thirteen Ways of Thinking About… Digital Preservation.”
DLib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html
 Pockley, Simon. “Lest We Forget, Or Why I chose the World Wide Web as a repository for archival
material,” 1996, retrieved from the latest CoOL site: http://cool.conservationus.org/byauth/pockley/pockley1.html
 Creative Archiving at Michigan and Leeds Emulating the Old and the New (CAMiLEON),
http://www2.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/
 Functional Requirements for Evidence in Recordkeeping: The Pittsburgh Project,
http://www.archimuse.com/papers/nhprc/BACartic.html
 International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES) 1 and 2,
http://www.interpares.org/
 Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI), http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/index.html
 Representation and Rendering Project (RepRend),
http://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/archive/20050126000000/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/repren
d/index.html
 Rieger, Oya. 2008. “Preservation in the Age of Large Scale Digitization.” Council on Library and
Information Resources. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub141/pub141.pdf
 Waugh, Andrew. 2007. “The Design and Implementation of an Ingest Function to a Digital Archive,”
D-Lib Magazine, 13:11/12. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november07/waugh/11waugh.html
 2000. “Authenticity in a Digital Environment,” CLIR.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub92/pub92.pdf
 2003. “Authenticity Task Force Report.” InterPARES. http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/usinterpares/pdf/AuthenticityTaskForceReport.pdf
 Duranti, Luciana. 1995. “Reliability and Authenticity: The Concepts and their Implications,”
Archivaria 39, 5-10.
http://journals.sfu.ca/archivar/index.php/archivaria/article/viewPDFInterstitial/12063/13035
 Gladney, H. M., Bennett, J.L. 2003. “What do we Mean by Authentic? What’s the Real McCoy?” D-Lib
Magazine, 9:7/8. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july03/gladney/07gladney.html
 Columbia University Libraries. Policy for Preservation of Digital Resources, July 2000, revised 2006.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/preservation/dlpolicy.html
 Cornell University Library Digital Preservation Policy Framework, December 2004.
http://commondepository.library.cornell.edu/cul-dp-framework.pdf
 Library of Congress. National Digital Information Infrastructure and Information Preservation
Program. Sustainability for Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/sustain/sustain.shtml
Review
 “Digital Preservation Management Tutorial.” Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR). http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/index.html
UNIT SEVEN: OPEN ARCHIVAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (OAIS) REFERENCE MODEL (OCT 9-15)
Assignments
Personal Digital Curation
DUE Friday, November 12, 11:59 pm
Readings
 Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. “Recommendation for Space Data Systems
Standards: Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System (OAIS),” Blue Book CCDS
650.0-B-1, January 2002. http://public.ccsds.org/publications/archive/650x0b1.pdf
 Lavoie, Brian. “The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide,” OCLC
Online Computer Library Center, January 2004. http://www.dpconline.org/docs/lavoie_OAIS.pdf
 2006. “Requirements for Trustworthy Recordkeeping Systems and the Preservation of Electronic
Records in a University Setting.” Tufts and Yale: Fedora and the Preservation of University Records,
section 1.5 http://dca.tufts.edu/features/nhprc/reports/index.html
UNIT EIGHT: STANDARDS, FRAMEWORKS, BEST PRACTICES (OCT 16-OCT 22)
Preservation Salon: Priscilla Caplan, FCLA
Readings
 2008. “PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, version 2.0.” Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/v2/premis-dd-2-0.pdf
 Caplan, Priscilla. 2009. “Understanding PREMIS.” Library of Congress.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/understanding-premis.pdf
 Lavoie, Brian. 2008. “PREMIS with a Fresh Coat of Paint: Highlights from the Revision of the PREMIS
Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata” D-Lib Magazine.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may08/lavoie/05lavoie.html
 McCargar, Victoria. 2005. “No Pain--No Metadata.” The Seybold Report.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/No%20Pain-No%20Metadata.pdf
 National Information Standards Organization and AIIM International. “Data Dictionary—Technical
Metadata for Digital Still Images” (Z39.87). Available at http://www.niso.org/standards/z39-87-2006
 Peters McLellan, Evelyn. 2007. “General Study 11 Final Report: Selecting Digital File Formats for
Long-Term Preservation.” InterPARES 2 Project.
http://www.interpares.org/display_file.cfm?doc=ip2_file_formats(complete).pdf
 Research Libraries Group. (2005) “Descriptive Metadata Guidelines.” Available at
http://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/past/culturalmaterials/RLG_desc_metadata.pdf
 Potter, Maureen. “XML For Digital Preservation: XML Implementation Options for E-Mails,”
presentation to the Erpanet workshop on XML and digital preservation, Urbino, Italy, Oct. 11, 2002.
Available at: http://www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/bibliotheek/docs/email-xml-imp.pdf
UNIT NINE: PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSETS AND ARCHIVES (OCT 23-29)
Assignments
Final Paper
DUE Friday, December 10, 11:59pm ET
Readings
 Beagrie, Neil. “Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections.” D-Lib
Magazine, 11 (6), June 2005. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/beagrie/06beagrie.html
 Marshall, Catherine C. “How People Manage Personal Information over a Lifetime.” In Personal
Information Management (Jones and Teevan, eds.), University of Washington Press, Seattle,
Washington, 2007, pp. 57-75. http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/PIM%20Chapter-Marshall.pdf
 Marshall, Catherine C. “Rethinking Personal Digital Archives, Part 1: Four Challenges from the Field,”
D-Lib Magazine 14 (3/4), March/April 2008.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/marshall/03marshall-pt1.html
 Marshall, Catherine C. “Rethinking Personal Digital Archiving, Part 2: Implications for Services,
Applications, and Institution,” D-Lib Magazine 14 (3/4), March/April 2008.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/marshall/03marshall-pt2.html
 Facebook: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/352807/facebook-to-preserve-accounts-of-the-dead
 McCown, F. and Nelson, M. L. (2009). ‘What happens when facebook is gone?” In JCDL '09:
Proceedings of the 9th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries, pages 251-254, New
York, NY. Online at http://www.harding.edu/fmccown/pubs/archiving-facebook-jcdl2009.pdf
 Sanford, Gregory. “An empty toolbox? Archives and the future of research,” Vermont History 71
(Winter 2003), 98-102. Available at http://vermonthistory.org/journal/71/vt711_209.pdf
 Rosenzweig, R. (2003). “Scarcity or abundance? Preserving the past in a digital era,” American
Historical Review, 108 (3), 735-762.
 Bell, Gordon, and Jim Gemmell. “A digital life.” Scientific American, March 2007, 58-65.
 Gemmell, Jim, Gordon Bell and Roger Lueder, “MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything.”
Communications of the ACM, 49 (1) (January 2006): 88-95.
 Felten, Eric. “Do you want that on your permanent record” De Gustibus column. The Wall Street
 Journal, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, W13. Available at
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574432942927995848.html
 Lucky, R. (2005). “Life Bits.” IEEE Spectrum, 42(5), 76.
 Wilkinson, Alec. “Remember this?” The New Yorker, May 28, 2007, 38-44.
UNIT TEN: REPOSITORIES AND PRESERVATION (OCT 30-NOV 5)
Preservation Salon: Robin Dale, Lyrasis
Readings
 Chris Rusbridge’s Digital Curation blog posting about repositories and preservation
http://digitalcuration.blogspot.com/2009/02/repositories-and-preservation.html
 2008. “Keeping The Records Of Science Accessible: Can We Afford It?” In Report on the 2008
Conference of the Alliance for Permanent Access, Budapest. Alliance for Permanent Access.
http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.eu/documenten%5CAlliance2008conference_report.pdf
 Halbert, Martin, Katherine Skinner, and Gail McMillan. 2009. “Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital
Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks.”
Proceedings of the Archiving 2009 Conference. pp 86-91. http://www.metaarchive.org/articles
 Hitchcock, Tim, et al. 2007. “Digital Preservation Service Provider Models for Institutional
Repositories Towards Distributed Services,” D-Lib Magazine, 13 (5/6).
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may07/hitchcock/05hitchcock.html
 Phillips, Margaret E. 2005. “What Should We Preserve? The Question for Heritage Libraries in a
Digital World.” Library Trends, 54 (1), 57-71.
http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/2454/Phillips.pdf?sequence=2
 Smith, Mackenzie. 2005. “Exploring Variety in Digital Collections and the Implications for Digital
Preservation,” Library Trends, 54 (1), 6-15.
http://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/2455/Smith.pdf?sequence=2
 Yakel, Elizabeth, et al. 2008. “Institutional Repositories and the Institutional Repository: College and
University Archives and Special Collections in an Era of Change.” American Archivist 71 (2), 323-349.
http://miracle.si.umich.edu/publications/American_Archivist_IRs.pdf
 Wheatley, Paul. 2003. “A way forward for developments in the digital preservation functions of
DSpace: options, issues and recommendations,” DSpace Federation.
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/documents/sherpaplusdocs/nottsRepository%20Staff%20and%20Skills.pdf
 Wager, Skiff. 2005. “Digital asset management, media asset management, and content
management: From confusion to clarity.” Journal of Digital Asset Management. 1, 157–163.
 Weinstein, Perry. 2006. “So what is asset management anyway?” Journal of Digital Asset
Management. 1, 67-70.
UNIT ELEVEN: PRESERVATION TOOLS, SYSTEMS, AND SERVICES (NOV 6-12)
DUE Friday, November 12, 11:59 pm ET: Personal Digital Curation
Readings
 2008. “LOCKSS: How It Works.” LOCKSS website. http://www.lockss.org/lockss/How_It_Works
 David S. H. Rosenthal, "LOCKSS: Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe", presented to the NIST Digital
Preservation Interoperability Framework Workshop, March 29-31, 2010.
http://www.lockss.org/locksswiki/files/NIST2010.pdf
 Skinner, Katherine and Matt Schultz. A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation. (Focus on chapters
1, 2, 4, 5). http://metaarchive.org/GDDP
 Rubin, Nan. 2009. “Preserving Digital Public Television: Is There Life After Broadcasting?”
International Preservation News, No. 47, pp. 26-31. http://www.ifla.org/files/pac/IPN_47_web.pdf
 York, Jeremy. 2009. “This Library Never Forgets: Preservation, Cooperation, and the Making of
HathiTrust Digital Library.” Proceedings of the Archiving 2009 Conference. pp. 5-9.
http://www.hathitrust.org/documents/This-Library-Never-Forgets.pdf
 Minor, D., D. Sutton, A. Kozbial, M. Burek, M. Smorul. (2010) “Chronopolis Digital Preservation
Network” The International Journal of Digital Curation.
http://chronopolis.sdsc.edu/assets/docs/chronopolis_dcc_revised.pdf
 Seneca, Tracy. 2009. “The Web-at-Risk at Three: Overview of an NDIIPP Web Archiving Initiative”
Library Trends. 57:3, pp. 427-441.
 Anderson, Martha. "Evolving a Network of Networks: The Experience of Partnerships in the National
Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program." International Journal of Digital
Curation 3, no. 1 (2008). http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/59
 Day, Michael. "Toward Distributed Infrastructures for Digital Preservation: The Roles of
Collaboration and Trust." International Journal of Digital Curation 3, no. 1 (2008).
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/60
 Hitchcock, Steve, David Tarrant, and L. Carr. Towards Repository Preservation Services: Final Report
from the JISC Preserv 2 Project. London: JISC, 2009. http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/381/
 Moore, Reagan. "Towards a Theory of Digital Preservation." International Journal of Digital Curation
3, no. 1 (2008). http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/63
 Morrow, Terry, Neil Beagrie, Maggie Jones, and Julia Chruszcz. A Comparative Study of E-Journal
Archiving Solutions. London: JISC, 2008. http://www.jisccollections.ac.uk/media/documents/jisc_collections/reports/e_journals_archiving_%20solutions_re
port_final_080518.pdf
UNIT TWELVE: ASSESSING DIGITAL PRESERVATION (NOV 13-19)
Readings
 RLG-NARA Digital Repositories Certification Task Force. “Trustworthy Repositories Audit &
Certification: Criteria and Checklist,” Center for Research Libraries, February 2007. Available at
http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/trac_0.pdf
 “Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment (DRAMBORA).” Digital Curation Centre
and Digital Preservation Europe. http://www.repositoryaudit.eu/download
 “ISO Working Group on Digital Repository Audit and Certification Wiki.”
http://wiki.digitalrepositoryauditandcertification.org/bin/view
 “Working Group on Trusted Digital Long-term Repositories and their Certification, A Catalogue of
Criteria for Trusted Digital Long-term Repositories.” NESTOR. http://edoc.huberlin.de/series/nestor-materialien/8en/PDF/8en.pdf
 Dale, Robin. “Making Certification Real: Developing Methodology for Evaluating Repository
Trustworthiness,” RLG DigiNews, 9(5) October 15, 2005, available at:
http://www.worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/08/08/0000070511/viewer/file3025.html#article2
 Ross, Seamus, McHugh, Andrew. 2006. “The Role of Evidence in Establishing Trust in Repositories.”
D-Lib Magazine, 12 7/8. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/ross/07ross.html
 Steinhart, Gail, Dianne Dietrich and Ann Green. “Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: the
TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DATAStaR),” D-Lib Magazine 15(9/10),
September/October 2009. Available at www.dlib.org/dlib/september09/steinhart/09steinhart.html
UNIT THIRTEEN: DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT AND COPYRIGHT (NOV 20-26)
Preservation Salon: Dwayne K. Buttler, University of Louisville
Readings
 Besek, June M. Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: a Preliminary
Assessment. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR): 2003.
Available through CLIR as “pub112” or here:
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub112/contents.html
 Besek, June M., Jessica Coates, Brian Fitzgerald, Wilma Mossink, William G. LeFurgy, Adrienne Muir,
Mary Rasenberger, and Christopher D. Weston. "Digital Preservation and Copyright: An International
Study." International Journal of Digital Curation 3, no. 2 (2008).
http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/90
 Knutson, Alyssa N. “Proceed With Caution: How Digital Archives Have been Left in the Dark.”
Berkeley Technology Law Journal 24(437), 2009, 437-473.
http://www.btlj.org/data/review/24-437-473.pdf
 Library of Congress, Joint Information Systems Committee, et al. International Study on the Impact
of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation. July 2008.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/library/resources/pubs/docs/digital_preservation_final_report2
008.pdf
 Section 108. http://www.section108.gov
 Hirtle, Peter B., Emily Hudson and Andrew T. Kenyon. “Copyright and Cultural Institutions:
Guidelines for Digitization in U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums.”
http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/14142
 Helprin, Mark. “Copyright Critics Rationalize Theft,” by Mark Helprin. The Wall Street Journal, May
11, 2009, page A19. Available at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124199933659205011.html
 Roundup of international copyright laws from Library of Congress:
http://digitalpreservation.gov/library/resources/pubs/docs/digital_preservation_final_report2008.p
df
 Quint, Barbara. “Tasini Damage Reporting Decisions Today's vendor policy choices will affect
customer relations tomorrow,” Information Today 19 (4), April 2002.
http://www.infotoday.com/IT/apr02/quint.htm
 Quint, Barbara. “Redundancy.” Searcher, May 2008.
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/may08/voice.shtml
 Society of American Archivists. “Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices,” 2009.
http://www.archivists.org/standards/OWBP-V4.pdf
 Weinstein, Perry. (2005).”So, what is asset management anyway?” Journal of Digital Asset
Management, 1(1), 67-70.
 Wager, Skiff. (2005). “Digital asset management, media asset management, and content
management: From confusion to clarity.” Journal of Digital Asset Management, 1(1), 40-45.
 Crawford, Walt. 2009. “Perspective: The Google Book Search Settlement.” Cites & Insights.
http://citesandinsights.info/civ9i4.pdf
o Read Karen Coyle’s response to this article: http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2009/05/waltcrawford-should-read-document.html ,
o Walt’s response to Karen http://walt.lishost.org/2009/05/responding-as-politely-aspossible/ , and
o Siva Vaidhyanathan’s response to Walt’s response
http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/2009/05/is_the_google_book_search_proj.php
UNIT FOURTEEN: ECONOMICS OF DIGITAL PRESERVATION (NOV 27-DEC 3)
Preservation Salon: Jeff Rothenberg, Senior Information Systems Analyst, RAND Corporation
Sites
 “Cost Orientation Tool.” erpa guidance. http://www.erpanet.org/guidance/index.php
 ESPIDA project at the University of Glasgow: http://www.gla.ac.uk/espida/
Readings
 2007. “The Digital Dilemma.” Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences.
http://www.oscars.org/science-technology/council/projects/digitaldilemma/index.html (You will
need to register to download this document.)
 Currall, James, McKinney, Peter. 2006. “Investing in Value,” D-Lib Magazine, 12:4.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april06/mckinney/04mckinney.html
 Davies, Richard, et al. 2007. “How much does it cost? The LIFE Project - Costing Models for Digital
Curation and Preservation.” LIBER Quarterly.
http://liber.library.uu.nl/publish/articles/000210/article.pdf
 Lavoie, Brian F. 2008. "The Fifth Blackbird: Some Thoughts on Economically Sustainable Digital
Preservation." D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march08/lavoie/03lavoie.html
 Sanett, Shelby. 2003. “The Cost to Preserve Authentic Electronic Records in Perpetuity: Comparing
Costs Across Cost Models and Cost Frameworks,” RLG DigiNews, 7:4.
http://digitalarchive.oclc.org/da/ViewObjectMain.jsp?fileid=0000070519:000006288453&reqid=207
#feature2
 Hoorens, Stijn, et al. 2007. “Addressing The Uncertain Future Of Preserving The Past: Towards A
Robust Strategy For Digital Archiving And Preservation.” Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Rand Europe.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR510/
 Tyler Walters and Katherine Skinner, “Economics, Sustainability, and the Cooperative Model in
Digital Preservation” Library High Tech, v. 28, no. 2 (2010).
 Beagrie, Neil, Brian Lavoie and Matthew Woollard, “Keeping Research Data Safe 2.” UK: JISC, 2010.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/reports/2010/keepingresearchdatasafe2.aspx#downloads
 Rusbridge, Chris. "Excuse Me. . . Some Digital Preservation Fallacies?" Ariadne, no. 46 (2006).
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/rusbridge/
 Blue Ribbon Task Force (2010). “Sustainable Economics for a Digital Planet: Ensuring Long-Term
Access to Digital Information.” Final Report of the
Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access http://brtf.sdsc.edu/
UNIT FIFTEEN: PLANNING AND POLICY CREATION (DEC 4-9)
DUE Friday, December 10, 11:59pm ET: Final Papers
Sites
 Connecting to Collections Website from IMLS. http://www.imls.gov/collections/
 “Disaster plan workplan.” NYU Libraries. http://library.nyu.edu/preservation/disaster/toc.htm
 Heritage Preservation. “Emergency National Task Force - Response and Recovery Resources.”
http://www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/TFRespRecover.html
 Lyrasis disaster resources. http://www.lyrasis.org/Preservation/Disaster-Resources.aspx
“Disaster planning worksheet.” NEDCC Leaflet 3:4.
http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/3Emergency_Management/04DisasterPlanWorksheet.ph
p
 National Film & Sound Archive. “Disaster Planning: Disaster Prevention and Disaster Recovery
Planning.” http://www.nfsa.gov.au/preservation/film_handbook/disaster_planning.html
 “d-Plan: The Online Disaster-Planning Tool - DEMO.” NEDCC. http://www.dplan.org
Readings
 2003. “Digital Preservation Policy Tool.” erpa guidance.
http://www.erpanet.org/guidance/index.php
 2004. “Ingest Strategy.” erpa guidance. http://www.erpanet.org/guidance/index.php
 2003. “InterPARES Appraisal Task Force Report.” http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/usinterpares/pdf/AppraisalTaskForceReport.pdf
 McGovern, Nancy Y. 2009. “ICPSR Digital Preservation Policy Framework” ICPSR.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DP/policies/dpp-framework.html
 2004. “Appraisal Policy, Version 1.” The National Archives (UK).
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/appraisal_policy.pdf
 Smith, MacKenzie, Moore, Reagan W. 2007. “Digital Archive Policies and Trusted Digital
Repositories,” International Journal of Digital Curation 2:1.
http://www.ijdc.net/ijdc/article/view/27/30
 Columbia University Libraries. Policy for Preservation of Digital Resources, July 2000, revised 2006.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/services/preservation/dlpolicy.html
 Cornell University Library Digital Preservation Policy Framework, December 2004.
http://commondepository.library.cornell.edu/cul-dp-framework.pdf
 Library of Congress. National Digital Information Infrastructure and Information Preservation
Program. Sustainability for Digital Formats: Planning for Library of Congress Collections.
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/sustain/sustain.shtml
 Ross, Seamus, Gow, Ann. 1999. “Digital Archaeology: Rescuing Neglected and Damaged Data
Resources.” Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) University of
Glasgow. http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/supporting/pdf/p2.pdf