Return-Path: Sender: To: CNI-ANNOUNCE Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:05:57 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from [68.38.79.59] (HELO [172.17.183.129]) by cni.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPS id 44761932 for cni-announce@cni.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:50:12 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Original-Message-Id: X-Original-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:39:46 -0700 X-Original-To: cni-announce@cni.org From: Clifford Lynch Subject: Seeking Sustainability Report from RLG Programs @ OCLC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" The sustainability of digital resources and services in the cultural heritage sectors continues to be a major issue, with work going in in a variety of venues, including the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access (see http://brtf.sdsc.edu/ ) (Disclosure: I am serving as a member of this Task Force.) RLG Programs at OCLC has just produced a very helpful contribution to this discussion in the form of a report by Ricky Erway titled "Seeking Sustainability", which offers a retrospective on success and failures of the RLG cultural materials and Trove.net programs, now discontinued. A link to the report can be found at: http://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports.htm Clifford Lynch Director, CNI