<div dir="ltr"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">*Apologies in advance for multiple postings.*</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ALCTS webinar: Preserving Digital Collections: An Overview</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This session is part 3 of a 3-part series, Library Preservation Today,</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">sponsored by the ALCTS Preservation & Reformatting Section (PARS)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2016</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Description: Session 3 of Library Preservation Today will be a primer to digital library preservation, assuming little or no background in protecting and ensuring access to both born digital and digitized collections, including text, images, and AV collections. The presentation will provide tools to begin extending the useful life of library collections.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Learning outcomes:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Upon completion of this series, attendees will:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">1. Value preservation as a formal library function, and how it reflects and supports the institutional mission</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">2. Appreciate the primary role of preventive care, including good storage conditions, in extending the useful life of collections; and </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">3. Understand some of the challenges in preserving digital content and what the implications are for the future of scholarship.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Who should attend? Those who work in smaller to medium sized libraries, archives and historical societies.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Presenter: </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Peter Verheyen</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, Research and Emerging Issues Analyst at Syracuse University Library comes from a bookbinding and rare book conservation background. He worked as a conservator in private practice and at Yale and Cornell University libraries. In 1995 he established the conservation lab at the Syracuse University Libraries and served as Head of Preservation and Conservation until 2013. Verheyen was involved in digitization activities at Syracuse and managed many projects in the Special Collections Research Center.</span></p><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">*****************</span></p></span><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">This session is part 3 of a 3-part series, Library Preservation Today:</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><ol style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/030216" target="_blank">Environmental Monitoring and Control</a>, Wednesday, March 2, 2016</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/030916" target="_blank">Care and Handling of Books and Scrapbooks</a></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, Wednesday, March 9, 2016</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Preserving Digital Collections: An Overview</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, Wednesday, March 16, 2016</span></p></li></ol><div><br></div><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Participant Each ($) Entire Series ($)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ALCTS Member $43 each; $103 for series (save $26)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Non-member $59 each; $142 for series (save $35)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Group rate (members/non-members) $99/$129 each; $238 (save $59)/$310 for series (save $77)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">International $43 $103 (save $26) </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">For additional information and access to registration links, please go to the following website: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/031616" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/031616</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the recording shortly following the live event.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling <a href="tel:1-800-545-2433" value="+18005452433" target="_blank">1-800-545-2433</a> and press 5 or email </span><a style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">registration@ala.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">. For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at <a href="tel:1-800-545-2433%2C%20ext.%205034" value="+18005452433" target="_blank">1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034</a> or </span><a href="mailto:alctsce@ala.org" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">alctsce@ala.org</span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.</span></p></span></div>