Laura E. Campbell will be presenting her lecture entitled, “The
National Digital Preservation Program: Challenges and Solutions” at the
Library of Congress on Friday, March 21, from 1:00pm-2:30pm in the
Mumford Room on the 6th floor of the Library of Congress' James Madison
Building, located at First Street and Independence Avenue S.E.,
Washington,
D.C.  No reservations are necessary.  All Luminary Lectures are free and
open to the public.  This lecture will also be broadcast live via the
Internet at
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/campbell.html on the morning of
the lecture, EST.

Laura E. Campbell is the Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives
at the Library of Congress.

About the lecture: As the volume of digital material escalates, the
creative expression record of the Nation in science, technology, arts,
and humanities and
the future historical record are increasingly embodied in this fragile,
ephemeral, and dynamic medium. As a result, the U.S. Congress has
charged the Library
of Congress to lead a national effort to forge an infrastructure to
identify, acquire, manage, and preserve important works in digital form
through the National
Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), passed in
December 2000 (PL-106-554). As the first step in the NDIIPP planning
process,
we consulted stakeholders in a broad array of industries, academic
institutions, and non-profit organizations. On the basis of that process
and together with a
review of the state-of-the-art in preservation, we have developed a
master plan that recognizes the challenges and sets forth next steps.
This discussion
describes the planning/consultation process, outlines the challenges,
and sets forth solutions for a nation-wide infrastructure.

More about Laura E. Campbell: On Oct. 2, 2000, Laura E. Campbell was
appointed by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington as Associate
Librarian
for Strategic Initiatives, a new Library of Congress position.  Creation
of the position responds to a recommendation contained in the July 26,
2000, National
Academy of Sciences report, "LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of
Congress."

Ms. Campbell is responsible for the overall strategic planning for the
Library, which includes development of a national strategy, in
cooperation with other
institutions, for the collection, access and preservation of digital
materials. This program is formally called the National Digital
Information Infrastructure and
Preservation Program. Ms. Campbell also has oversight of the Information
Technology Services directorate at the Library.

Ms. Campbell has retained her title as Director of the National Digital
Library (NDL) Program at the Library. In this capacity she led a
cooperative national
effort to digitize and make available online important and interesting
materials of America's history and culture from the Library and other
repositories
throughout the country. The flagship of the NDL Program is the
award-winning American Memory Web site, which makes freely available
more than 7
million historical primary source materials.

This event is part of the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library series, which
began last spring.  The Public Service Collections Directorate of the
Library of
Congress sponsors this speaker series.  Please check the Luminary
Lectures @ Your Library web site for more information about Laura E.
Campbell and
about this lecture series: <http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/>.
This lecture will be broadcasted a live via this website, and the
recorded webcast will be
made available after the event.

Other events coming in the Luminary Lectures @ Your Library series
coming up this year include:

“Transforming the Urban Public Library” presented by Molly Raphael,
Director of the District of Columbia Public Library, on Friday, April
18,
2003, @ Pickford Theater, from 10:30-12:00noon

“The Anarchist in the Library: The Moral Panics over Copyright and Free
Speech” presented by Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor of
Culture and Communication at New York University, on Friday May 9, 2003,
@ Dining Room A from 10:30am-12:00noon

For more information, please see
<http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/>.  For special assistance,
please contact: Alison Foster, Library of Congress,
Phone: (202) 707-1183, Email: afos@loc.gov.