2008 World Library and Information Congress: Québec, Canada

Session 159

Enabling access to the global library – small is beautiful: distributed deployment of library services for small and special libraries

• Case study: The Evergreen Open Source Integrated Library System; its origins and significant implementations in the USA and Canada
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  BEN HYMAN (Public Library Services Branch, Ministry of Education, Government of British Columbia, Canada, Victoria, BC, Canada) and JULIE WALKER (Georgia Public Library Service, Atlanta, GA, USA)
• Archon: facilitating global access to collections in small archives
  SCOTT W. SCHWARTZ, CHRISTOPHER PROM, KYLE FOX and PAUL SORENSEN
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  (University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA)
• Punching above our weight: a small Scottish Library Service joins the global community
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  ANTHONY BROWNE (East Renfrewshire Council, Community Services, Scotland, UK) and CHRISTINE ROONEY-BROWNE (Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK)
• Digital archiving of e-journals for Special libraries
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  EDMUND BALNAVES and MARK CHEHADE (Prosentient Systems, Sydney, Australia)

Session 84

Preservation and Conservation, (PAC), Information Technology, IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) and Law Libraries

Session 1: Digital objects on physical carriers
Moderator: Michele Cloonan, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College

• Interactive multimedia on CD-ROM: experiments with risk assessment
  MONA JIMENEZ (New York University, New York, USA)
• Risk carriers – The risks faced to hand held media
  RORY McLEOD (British Library, London, UK)
• Media Matters: developing processes for preserving digital objects on physical carriers at the National Library of Australia
  DOUGLAS ELFORD, NICHOLAS DEL POZO, SNEZANA MIHAJLOVIC, DAVID PEARSON, GERARD CLIFTON and COLIN WEBB (National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia)
• Ingest strategies of digital libraries: the challenges of handling portable objects
  ADAM RUSBRIDGE and SEAMUS ROSS (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland)

Session 2: Preservation Infrastructures
Moderator: Hilde van Wijngaarden, National Library of the Netherlands

• Implementing a cooperative long-term preservation infrastructure solution for heterogeneous institutions – report from ongoing activities in Germany
  REINHART ALTENHONER (Deutsche NationalBibliothek, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland)
• Infrastructure models used by California Digital Library’s Preservation Projects
  MARGARET LOW (California Digital Library, Oakland, USA)
• A model of digital preservation infrastructures that connects individuals to libraries
  ANDREA JAPZON (Drexel University, Philadephia, USA)
• Digital preservation at the National Library of France: a technical and organisational overview
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  EMMANUELLE BERMES, ISABELLE DUSSERT CARBONE, THOMAS LEDOUX and CHRISTIAN LUPOVICI (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France)
• Library and Archives Canada: towards a trusted digital repository
  PAM ARMSTRONG (Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Canada)
• From theory to practice: digital preservation at the National Library of New Zealand
  STEVE KNIGHT (National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand)