ALCTS PARS Digital Preservation Interest Group

Please join the ALCTS Digital Preservation Interest Group at ALA Annual Conference to be held in Washington DC on Sunday, June 23, 2019, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM at the Marriott Marquis, Chinatown

Two presentations, two speakers
Learning on the Job: Implementing Digital Preservation at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The presentation will examine the digital preservation initiatives at the UTRGV as a case study, describing the obstacles and how they were ultimately resolved. 

Dynamic Preservation: The Challenge of Growth in an Archival Repository. The presentation will focus on the Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive, describing the evolving strategy to showcase one possible approach to balancing the vitality of the archive with the integrity of the archival repository.


Presenters
Kristen Weischedel is the digital archivist for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
(UTRGV) where she creates digital exhibitions, creates and maintains digital preservation workflows, manages digitization, and instructs patrons on archival research. She received her MLIS in archives management and MA in history at Simmons College.

Dean Smith (smith@frick.org) has been working in libraries in various capacities for roughly half his life, most recently as the Assistant Digital Preservation Librarian at The Frick Art Reference Library. His primary responsibility is to coordinate the ingest of digitized materials into archival storage, administering one of The Frick's preservation ecosystems. Dean's academic background is in music history and he has a passing interest in the collision between copyright policy and the preservation of old, commercially-released, historically significant recordings.

John McQuaid (mcquaid@frick.org), Digital Photoarchive Coordinator at The Frick Art
Reference Library, has a MA in the History of Art from The Ohio State University where he oversaw the digital conversion of the Jack Balcer Image Archive. At The Frick he spearheaded a searchable database of nearly 15,000 anonymous works of art from Italy. Now he is in the final stages of a project to digitize and provide metadata for approximately 500,000 works of art. 


Patrice-Andre Prud'homme and Justin Baumgartner, co-chairs

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​Patrice-Andre Prud'homme, PhD
Director, Digital Collections
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078
pprudho@okstate.edu | 405-744-7372
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