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Subject:        Working Group on Digital Library Guidelines Meets in Washington
Date:   Tue, 15 May 2007 10:17:17 -0600
From:   Bernadine Abbott Hoduski <[log in to unmask]>

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> Working Group on Digital Library Guidelines Meets in Washington
>
> The International Federation of Library Institutions and Associations
> (IFLA) and the Library of Congress co-hosted a meeting of the IFLA-World
> Digital Library Working Group on Digital Library Guidelines in Washington
> on May 4, 2007. The working group was established by IFLA in early 2007 to
> develop digital library guidelines and best practices for use by libraries
> and other cultural institutions around the world.
>
> The IFLA group is one of four working groups established at the conclusion
> of the UNESCO expertsâ?T meeting on the World Digital Library on December
> 1, 2006. UNESCO, the Library of Congress, IFLA, and a number of national
> libraries are cooperating on the development of a plan for a World Digital
> Library. The guidelines developed by the IFLA working group will be a
> contribution to this plan. The guidelines also are expected to be of value
> to all libraries that are creating or that intend to create digital
> libraries, whether or not they participate in the World Digital Library.
>
> Claudia Lux, Director General of the Central and Regional Library, Berlin
> and president-elect of IFLA, convened the group and chaired the meeting.
> Other members of the working group who participated were Allene Hayes,
> Library of Congress; Jaesun Lee, National Library of Korea; Catherine
> Lupovici, Bibliothèque nationale de France; Dale P. Peters, Digital
> Imaging South Africa; Winston D. Roberts, National Library of New Zealand;
> Ingeborg Verheul, Koninklijke Bibliotheek; Simone Vieira, Federal Senate
> Library of Brazil; and Marcia L. Zeng, Kent State University. Members of
> the World Digital Library team at the Library of Congress who participated
> as observers included John Van Oudenaren, Michelle Rago, and Donna Wilson.
>
> The working group met with Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress,
> and discussed with him his vision of a World Digital Library and its
> relationship to other national and regional digital initiatives. The
> members of the group organized their work and established subgroups to
> work in the areas of content selection, metadata, technology, service, and
> organization. The group is expected to produce a set of recommendations
> and guidelines by mid-2008.
>