Roger Schonfeld, Ithaka S+R's Manager of Research, will attend and present.

Presentation title: Preserving Library Collections

As digitized journal backfile sets become available online, they fulfill the lion’s share of user access needs, leading many librarians and academic administrators to call into question the need to retain print. How can libraries share the burden to enable them to securely reassign the stack space occupied by disused print versions without risking preservation? To empower libraries to take a more confident approach to print collections management, this talk will examine how to develop an adequate preservation framework for legacy print collections. Drawing from a report recently released by Ithaka S+R, this talk will consider collaboration through information-sharing as well as more formal mechanisms for collaboration.