This announcement below was sent to the Digital-Preservation discussion list and it seemed appropriate for this blog.
Last Thursday would have been the 63rd birthday of Bob
Oakley, the late director of the Georgetown University Law Library and a pillar
in the law library community. Today, we are pleased to announce a symposium
dedicated to his memory.
Immediately preceding the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting, on Saturday, July 25, in Washington, DC, the Georgetown Law Library will be holding The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship (FTLS), a Symposium in Honor of Bob
Oakley, which will build upon the fundamental assumption that blogs are an integral part of today’s legal scholarship.
This symposium will bring together academic bloggers,
librarians, and experts in digital preservation to brainstorm and debate the
great challenges presented for future researchers of materials currently
populating the blogosphere. These challenges include unreliable materials,
disappearing scholarship and documents, and the proliferation of online legal
scholarship. Symposium participants will collectively develop innovative
practices to ensure that valuable scholarship is not easily
lost.
Join the conversation now by tagging items you think are
relevant to this symposium with the del.icio.us tag FTLS2009.
Details about the symposium and a complete list of all
FTLS2009 tagged items can be found at http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/ftls/.
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