Re: At ALA please [Fwd: [DIGLIB] encourage publishers to make their content "LOCKSS-able"] Carrie Eastman 07 Jun 2005 17:10 UTC
I just went to a seminar last Thursday, June 2, 2005. Where Victoria Reich, the Director and co-founder of LOCKSS did a presentation for ACRL New England. This is an amazing program. They are really at the point where the technology is in place. They now need the customers (us) to tell our publishers that we want them to support it. Electronic archives are part of our future, how soon we move into that future partly depends upon how much we push for it now. Tell your publishers to support LOCKSS. Carrie Eastman Serials/ILL Assistant Wheelock College Library -----Original Message----- From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU] On Behalf Of Lauren Corbett Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 12:46 PM To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU Subject: [SERIALST] At ALA please [Fwd: [DIGLIB] encourage publishers to make their content "LOCKSS-able"] Dear SERIALST and ACQNET, Please forgive duplication if you are on the other lists that got this message, but I feel it's important to support LOCKSS and want to spread the word. Lauren -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [DIGLIB] encourage publishers to make their content "LOCKSS-able" Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 07:38:05 -0500 From: Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu> To: DigLib <diglib@infoserv.inist.fr>, Web4Lib <web4lib@webjunction.org> This conference season encourage publishers to make their content "LOCKSS-able". LOCKSS is a potential solution to the problem of preserving and archiving electronic serial literature. Libraries that run a LOCKSS box can collect, own, and preserve for the long term a copy of the electronic serials they subscribe to, but only if the publishers give permission. For more information about LOCKSS see: http://www.lockss.org/ Many publishers have said they will give permission, but fewer have added the necessary permission pages to their web sites allowing LOCKSS computers access. Apparently publishers are not following through because the library community has not expressed an interest. When you see your publisher friends this conference season, please encourage them to make their content LOCKSS-able. -- Eric Lease Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department University Libraries of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WLIC 71st IFLA General Conference and Council Oslo, Norway, 14-18 August 2005 "Libraries: A Voyage of Discovery" Registration: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/registration-e.htm Conference Information: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/index.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Lauren Corbett Head of Acquisitions Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322-2870 Ph: 404 712-1818