Best Practices Exchange

Welcome to Best Practices Exchange, a website dedicated to information about the Best Practices Exchange Conferences and an online community for librarians, archivists, records managers and other information professionals dedicated to managing digital information primarily in state government. The forum provides a place for you to discuss issues, challenges, and solutions. Please visit the conference page for information about past and upcoming conferences, as well as find links to their websites. The search function is a custom Google search that searches this site and other relevent websites.

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The 2010 Best Practices Exchange will take place in Phoenix, Arizona, Wednesday, 29 September through Friday, 1 October. The program may also include a one-day preconference workshop on digital preservation management.

The Best Practices Exchange program has always been a grass-roots effort, with presentations by individuals working in the field who want to share their knowledge and get insights from others. The presentations are collaborative and informal. The program will include a variety of tracks covering all aspects of digital curation. Potential tracks include:

  • New ways of working: strategically rethinking curatorial strategy
  • New tools: Practical, hands-on techniques, tips, and tools
  • New media: Collecting and preserving social media, the rising use of audio and video formats
  • Transparency in government: Openness and personal privacy
  • Policy and administration: Sustainable programs and commitment to long-term preservation
  • Additional tracks that evolve out of proposals from the community



The program will feature presentations from the four States Initiatives projects funded by the Library of Congress, National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). The projects include:



2010 Program Committee
Co-Chairs
     Robert Horton ~ Minnesota Historical Society
     Nancy McGovern ~ Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
     Richard Pearce-Moses ~ Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
Members
     Don Chalfant ~ The Library of Virginia
     Robin Chandler ~ University of California, San Diego
     Kelly Eubank ~ North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
     Michelle Gallinger ~ Library of Congress
     Mark Myers ~ Kentucky Department for Libraries & Archives
     Jennifer Ricker ~ North Carolina State Library

Contact Information for the 2010 Conference:
Richard Pearce-Moses
Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records
Telephone: (602) 926-4035 · Email

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This is a moderated list, which originated as a discussion forum for the group using state GILS metadata for electronic publications at the state government level. The list has expanded to be a forum for discussing all aspects of providing access to state government information. That includes topics such as preservation of old, fragile paper documents, issues involved in depository programs, GILS, digitizing projects, electronic archiving, outreach, and related topics.

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