Report of Business by Jonathan Thorn
The Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest group meeting was called to order at 10:30 Sunday, July 12th at the annual meeting of the American Library Association. The first hour of the meeting was a programmed presentation given by Sarah Shreeves, the Coordinator for IDEALS--the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship.
The following is an excerpt of the presentation’s scope: "Saying What We Do and Doing What We Say: Preservation Issues (Metadata and Otherwise) in Institutional Repositories"
Sarah Shreeves, the Coordinator for IDEALS--the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship--will discuss her real world experience in trying to meet the preservation needs of an institutional repository. The challenges facing a repository responsible for the distribution and preservation of the wide variety of resources and formats contributed by faculty, students, and staff are formidable. Sarah's reflections will be embedded in an overview of the current preservation environment for institutional repositories.
Following her presentation were questions and discussion. Sarah’s program was insightful well received, and addressed the interests of this group. Following the presentation and discussion was the groups annual business meeting. During the business meeting a new co-chair was elected starting July 2009. Nicole Saylor, Head, Digital Library Services at the University of Iowa Libraries was elected by voice vote to replace outgoing co-chair Jonathan Thorn, Safe Sound Archive.
The meeting was concluded by Janet Gertz, chair, Audio Metadata Task Force, formed by this interest group gave a report of the Task Force progress. She proceeded to read the charge that was decided upon by the members of the task force at their meeting.