On August 3, the "SCDC 2006" conference held at Department of Archives and History, brought together 70 librarians, archivists, curators, educators, broadcasters and others interested ininterested in digital cultural heritage

Digital Collections expert, Martin Kalfatovic (Head of the New Media Office and Preservation Services at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries) made the keynote address, and sessions on getting started, discovery tools, data longevity, and collaboration rounded out the day.  There were also planning and brainstorming sessions.

The presenters and sessions facilitators were Kate Boyd, USC Digital Collections Librarian; Courtney Danforth, PASCAL Digital Collections Coordinator; and

DebbieLee Landi, Furman University Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist.

We will be posting Summaries of the conference activities here.

• Conference Agenda
• Summary of Keynote Address, "Converging on the Universal Library:  From Memex to Googleplex"
• "One Way to Start a Digitization Program"
• Round-Table Discussion Summaries
• "Strategies for Digital Preservation"
• "Collections Connections" - (Wrap Up Discussion)
• Participants

This conference was funded through an LSTA Grant administered by the South Carolina State Library.

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