Conference 2011
Fifth Annual Digital Library Conference and Vendor Fair
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Danvers, Massachusetts
Honoring the Past, Ensuring the Future: Creating and Managing Digital Collections
Join us for an information-packed day on starting and maintaining a digital collection of your valuable archival materials. This year's conference focuses on creating and managing digital collections, from understanding and choosing appropriate software to finding interns and grants. We will share case studies from institutions, both large and small, that have successfully moved their historic collections online.
The Massachusetts Library System (MLS) is co-sponsoring the event and providing support for this conference. Please join us in Danvers for what is sure to be an interesting day.
Registration Costs: $85 until April 8 for attendees and $425 for exhibitors.
Click here for a complete schedule in PDF format.
Also available is a PDF list of speaker profiles.
Conference Schedule and Program:
| 8:30 | Registration and vendor set-up |
| 9:00 | Welcome and Digital Commonwealth Update, Jim Keenan |
| 9:15 | Keynote Speaker 1: Steve Puglia (Library of Congress) |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Breakout Session 1 |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Vendor Fair |
| 12:00 – 1:30 | Lunch and Keynote 2: Franziska Frey (RIT) Creating Rich and Long-Lasting Digital Images (PDF, 8 MB) |
| 1:45 – 2:45 | Breakout Session 2 |
| 3:00 – 4:00 | Breakout Session 3 |
BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
| Breakout Sessions 1: | 10:30-11:30 |
| 1. Disaster Management --Fire! | Nick Artim |
| 2. Born Digital: WGBH (PowerPoint) | Karen Cariani and Alison Bassett, (WGBH ) |
| 3. Panning For Gold: Grantwriting for Digital Projects (PowerPoint) | Gregor Trinkaus-Randall (MBLC) |
| Breakout Sessions 2: | 1:45-2:45 |
| 4. Getting Started With Digital Commonwealth (PowerPoint) |
Kristi Chadwick (C/W MARS) |
| 5. Managing Large (Digitization) Collections: And What Smaller Institutions Can Learn (PDF) | Jamie Roth and Erica Boudreau (JFK) |
| 6. Managing Interns: Finding and Managing Them Successfully(PowerPoint) | Martha Mahard (Simmons) |
| Breakout Sessions 3: | 3:00-4:00 |
| 7. From Your Archive to the Web: Managing the Project (PowerPoint) | Anne Clark and Anne Reed (Brookline) |
| 8. Choosing a Digital Collection Software Solution (PowerPoint) | Joseph Fisher (UMass Lowell) |
| 9. Introduction to Metadata: Dublin Core Best Practice for Digital Commonwealth (PowerPoint) | Leigh Grinstead (LYRASIS) |