Draft for review: Principles for Digitized Content

[Michele Newberry <fclmin@cns.ufl.edu>]

Forwarded on behalf of ALA's OITP Task Force on Digitization 
Policy. Your participation in the review of this draft will be 
very much appreciated.

 Thanks,
   Michele Newberry
   FCLA (and Task Force member)

---------------Original Message

In January of 2007, the Task Force on Digitization Policy of 
ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy introduced the 
draft Principles for Digitized Content. The goal of the 
principles is to succinctly voice the primary policy areas that 
can guide libraries as they make decisions regarding 
digitization. The nine principles are now available on the ALA 
blog site at http://blogs.ala.org/digitizationprinciples.php. The 
blog is an online area for your comments on the Principles, and 
we invite you to read them and give us your ideas. The blog will 
be accepting your comments until May 1, 2007. Comments from 
individuals are welcome, but if you are posting for an ALA Unit, 
please so indicate in your text.

The goal, after a review and comment period, is a concise 
document that would be officially adopted by ALA as a statement 
of where libraries stand on the policy issues raised by 
widespread digitization of library materials. The Task Force 
would like to present this document for approval by ALA Council 
at the 2007 annual conference in Washington, D.C.

Printable copies of the principles document, a list of Task Force 
members, and other background documents are available at: 
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/contactwo/oitp/digtask.htm

Thank you!
The OITP Task Force on Digitization Policy

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Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant
kcoyle@kcoyle.net http://www.kcoyle.net
ph.: 510-540-7596
fx.: 510-848-3913
mo.: 510-435-8234
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Michele Newberry        Assistant Director for Library Services
Florida Center for Library Automation              352-392-9020
5830 NW 39th Avenue                          352-392-9185 (fax)
Gainesville, FL  32606                       fclmin@cns.ufl.edu
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