The Northeast Document Conservation Center Presents:
DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections

MAY 27-29, 2009
Westin San Diego
San Diego, California

RESERVE YOUR SPACE NOW – REGISTER ONLINE AT:
http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09.php
Registration Deadline: MAY 1

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A FACULTY OF NATIONAL EXPERTS will lead you through the steps in creating and
managing successful digital projects.

AT THE DIGITAL DIRECTIONS CONFERENCE, YOU WILL:

CONNECT WITH OTHER PARTICIPANTS from your state or institution type at a
networking luncheon on Day One (included in your registration fee). Share ideas
and discuss issues relating to the wide variety of digital collections
represented at the conference.

LEARN WHAT WORKED – AND WHAT DIDN'T WORK – IN CASE STUDIES of recent local
digital projects, including municipal records for the City of San Diego; local
history collections at the South Pasadena Public Library and the San Diego
Historical Society; a century of botanical exploration in Baja California at the
San Diego Natural History Museum.

EXPLORE LOW-COST, HIGH-IMPACT PRESERVATION SERVICES that help ensure the
long-term accessibility of digital assets for cultural heritage institutions –
presented by Keynote Speaker Martin Halbert, Director of the MetaArchive
Cooperative.

LEARN ABOUT HIGH-END REPLICA DIGITAL PRINTING with a panel of experts, including
R. Mac Holbert, co-founder of Nash Editions, one of the premier fine art digital
print studios in the country, and Stanley Smith, Head of Imaging Services at the
J. Paul Getty Museum.

SHARE THE "FUN" IN FUNDRAISING with Ginny Steel, University Librarian, UC Santa
Cruz, as she recounts her experience with the Grateful Dead Archives and its
vast and colorful collection that documents the band from 1965 to the present.

MEET THE LEADING PROVIDERS of digitization hardware, software, and services at
the Digital Directions Vendor Showcase and Spotlight Sessions. (If you are a
vendor interested in exhibiting at Digital Directions, contact Julie Martin,
jmartin@....)

FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION ABOUT CONFERENCE CONTENT:
http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09.php
CONFERENCE SESSION ABSTRACTS: http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09abs.php#dale2
FACULTY BIOS: http://www.nedcc.org/education/ddsd09bio.php#dale

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CONFERENCE FEE: $700 (includes a Networking luncheon on Day 1 and the Conference
Reception)
New! Conference fee discounts are available: Students: $595; Groups of 3 or more
from the same institution registering at the same time: $595 each

NEDCC IS GRATEFUL FOR SUPPORT FROM the National Endowment for the Humanities for
the Center's preservation services. Any views, findings, conclusions, or
recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily reflect those of
the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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