RE: Preserving digital only materials

["Janice Anderson" <anderjan@law.georgetown.edu>]

Rob and all ~

I appreciate having information about LIPA and The Chesapeake 
Project disseminated on the list. I would like to clarify a few 
things about these efforts.

The Legal Information Preservation Alliance 
(http://www.aallnet.org/committee/lipa/) is a membership 
organization that currently has over 70 member libraries, mostly 
academic law libraries but, increasingly, state law libraries as 
well. LIPA was formed at a conference of law libraries called 
"Preserving Legal Information for the 21st Century: Toward a 
National Agenda" that was convened by Georgetown University Law 
Library in March 2003.  The American Association of Law Libraries 
has provided some funding and it hosts LIPA's web site; but LIPA 
has always been an independent organization governed by its 
elected Board. In 2007, LIPA hired its first Executive Director, 
who currently is Margaret Maes.

Legal Information Archive: The Chesapeake Project 
(http://www.legalinfoarchive.org) is an independent effort by 
three libraries - Georgetown Law Library and the State Law 
Libraries of Maryland and Virginia - "to successfully develop and 
implement a pilot program to stabilize, preserve, and ensure 
permanent access to critical born-digital legal materials on the 
World Wide Web ... [and] to establish the beginnings of a strong 
regional digital archive collection of U.S. legal materials as 
well as a sound set of standards, policies, and best practices 
that could potentially serve to guide the future realization of a 
nationwide preservation program." We use OCLC's digital archive 
software.

We have just completed our second year, and we are engaged in 
assessing the results. This includes having CRL do an assessment 
using Trusted Repositories Audit & Certification (TRAC) criteria. 
We are hoping that other law libraries will join us and/or follow 
our lead and put together similar projects.  We have recommended 
to LIPA that it encourage the development of other projects under 
the "Legal Information Archive" umbrella, and it is poised to do 
so.

Georgetown Law Library has long been committed to the 
preservation of legal information, first in print form and now in 
digital form. We believe that the cause is worthy.

Best,
Jan
Janice Snyder Anderson
Associate Director for Collection Services
Georgetown University Law Library
email: anderjan@law.georgetown.edu
phone: 202-662-9181


-----Original Message-----
From: richards1000@comcast.net [mailto:richards1000@comcast.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 7:17 PM
To: liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu
Subject: Re: Preserving digital only materials

Respecting preservation of digital legal materials, the American
Association of Law Libraries has organized the Legal Information
Preservation Alliance (LIPA):

http://www.aallnet.org/committee/lipa/

which coordinates this work in the U.S., including providing
guidance respecting copyright and licensing issues,

http://www.aallnet.org/committee/lipa/copyright.asp

One of LIPA's major initiatives is The Chesapeake Project: Legal
Information Archive

http://cdm266901.cdmhost.com/

a testbed archive of digital legal resources, managed by
Georgetown University Law Library, the Maryland State Law
Library, and the Virginia State Law Library.  Chesapeake's
copyright policy is at

http://cdm266901.cdmhost.com/cdm4/about.php#copyright .

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