Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium Report


Subject: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium Report
NINCH-ANNOUNCE (david@ninch.org)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 14:18:17 -0400


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Subject: Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis: Symposium Report

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
May 18, 2001

                       Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis:
                                Symposium Website
                        http://www.loc.gov/folklife/fhcc/

        New Report from the Council on Library & Information Resources
               http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub96abst.html

                                Recommendations
             http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub96/conclusion.html

A report on an important symposium on the future of folklife
collections is now available as a publication of the Council on
Library & Information Resources. Material is also available on the
symposium's website, hosted by the American Folklife Center at the
Library of Congress.

David Green
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>Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:14:31 -0700
>From: Kathlin Smith <ksmith@CLIR.ORG>
>Subject: CLIR Bulletin Number 1

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>Large portions of unpublished sound recordings from the twentieth
>century may be lost to future use if immediate steps are not taken
>to save them. A new report from CLIR, entitled "Folk Heritage
>Collections in Crisis"
>http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub96abst.html presents a list of
>27 recommendations for access, preservation, and rights management.
>The report is based on a meeting convened by The American Folklore
>Society and the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
>in December 2000, with support from CLIR, National Endowment for the
>Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities.

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>Kathlin Smith
>Director of Communications
>Council on Library and Information Resources
>1755 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 500
>Washington, DC 20036
>Phone: 202-939-4754
>Fax: 202-939-4765
>E-mail: ksmith@clir.org
>Web: www.clir.org

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