Maryann Belanger moderated this
discussion attended by Sheila Proudman and Wendy Brand. In our small
group, no one was actively involved in any preservation or digitization
efforts beyond online working papers, but were more interested in hearing
what others were doing. We decided in our situations the lack of
preservation efforts was due to the scarcity of staff time, money, and
commitment from our parent organizations. Sheila then posed the question
"If someone gave you $1,000,000 for a preservation or digitization
project, what would you do?" Maryann had some unique international
census items that she would preserve. Wendy would like to make the
International Census Collection, currently on microfilm, more accessible
to users. Wendy also suggested a permanent central digital warehouse for
working papers, including digitizing old papers, to make the decision of
how long to keep working papers easier to make for libraries.