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Press Release: Who Wants Yesterday's Papers? A Symposium on the Research Value of Printed Materials in the Digital Age



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                          WHO WANTS YESTERDAY^ÒS PAPERS?
A SYMPOSIUM ON THE RESEARCH VALUE OF PRINTED MATERIALS
                                        IN THE DIGITAL AGE

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LIBRARIES  MCKELDIN LIBRARY  COLLEGE PARK, MD
20742  (301) 405-9343 OR  (301) 405-9346

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 10, 2001
CONTACT: bksymposium@umail.umd.edu
http://www.lib.umd.edu/TSD/PRES/symposium.html


Maryland symposium discusses the fate of
book and paper materials in the digital age

COLLEGE PARK, MD---A daylong symposium will bring together scholars,
information professionals and the general public in an exploration of
changing perceptions regarding paper-based information resources.
Leading experts will discuss why they use and preserve information in
various formats, from files that are "born digital" to more traditional
books and archival collections on paper.

The symposium is open to the public and will be held on March 1, 2002,
at the University of Maryland Libraries in the McKeldin Library Special
Events
Room.  The day is sponsored by the University of Maryland Libraries and
the University of Maryland College of Information Studies.

The program will begin by addressing human anxieties about the fragility

of information and how society has responded to those anxieties.

The latter half of the morning session will focus on the information
format needs of scholars: Are digital files sufficient replacements for
book and paper
materials?  With so much emphasis on digital information, has society
become sentimental about its^Ò books and paper documents?  And should
sentiment drive libraries to preserve every book within their walls in
its original form?

The afternoon program will focus on the challenges involved in
preserving information from the decision-making process to issues unique
among different formats.

The event was planned in response to several recent publications that
have called attention to the tensions and contradictions modern society
faces in
preserving and using information.  These include the Council of Library
and Information Resources^Ò report Evidence in Hand: the Report of the
Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections, Nicolas Basbanes^Ò
Patience and Fortitude: A Roving
Chronicle of Book People, Book Places and Book Culture, and Nicolson
Baker^Òs Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper.

Participants include Walter Cybulski, National Library of Medicine;
Dr.Neil Fraistat,
University of Maryland; Dr. Jordan Goodman, University of Maryland; Anne

Kenney, Cornell University Library; Eric Lindquist, University of
Maryland
Libraries; Doug McElrath, University of Maryland Libraries; Martha
Nell-Smith, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH);
Mark Roosa, Library of Congress; Nancy Schrock, Harvard University; and
Dr. Abby Smith, Council on Library and Information Resources.

A poster session will be held between the morning and afternoon sessions

for students to showcase their related research. The guidelines are also

available online at http://www.lib.umd.edu/TSD/PRES/poster.html.

Continental breakfast will be served in the morning, lunch will be
available for pre-registered participants at the historic Rossborough
Inn, and a
reception will be held immediately following the symposium^Òs close.

The deadline for registration will be February 15, 2002, and is $20 for
the day for the general public and $10 for students.  Registration forms
can be
downloaded at http://www.lib.umd.edu/TSD/PRES/registration.html and
emailed to
bksymposium@umail.umd.edu or mailed to:

Preservation Department
University of Maryland Libraries
McKeldin Library B-0217
College Park, MD 20742.

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