Oya Y . Rieger William H . Walters Anne R . Kenney June 2000 Risk Management of Digital Information : A File Format Investigation

Additional copies are available for $20.00 from the address noted above. Orders must be prepaid, with checks made payable to the Council on Library and Information Resources. Library. He wrote his first assembly language " Hello, World " program in 1978, and has used C, Perl, VisualBasic, and Java to develop business applications and digital library delivery systems. He is currently the system architect for a service that will deliver interactive maps over the Web from numeric data supplied by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. For his participation in the USDA Economics and Statistics System, he received the USDA Secretary's Honor Award. Oya Y. Rieger has been a librarian at Cornell University for eight years, where she has held positions as numeric files librarian, USDA Economics and Statistics System Project coordinator, and gateway manager for Cornell University Library's Web-based information system. She has participated in several development projects related to electronic libraries and user support services and has written and spoken frequently on these topics. In her current position as coordinator of the Digital Imaging and Preservation Research Unit, she manages a range of digital imaging and preservation research, demonstration, and training projects. She is the coeditor of RLG DigiNews. Ms. Rieger and Anne Kenney have written a new monograph, Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, which was recently published by the Research Libraries Group (RLG). Soon after the completion of this report, he accepted the position of collection development librarian at St. Lawrence University. A Ph.D. candidate in sociology (demography) at Brown University, Mr. Walters has conducted research in librarianship, demography, cartography, and economic sociology. Anne R. Kenney is the associate director of the department of preservation and conservation and codirector of the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections. Since 1989, she has been involved in a continuing series of research and production projects centering on the use of digital imaging for preservation reformatting and enhanced access. She has written and spoken widely on the topic of digital imaging and been involved in several intensive digital training programs, both at Cornell University and on behalf of RLG. She is the coauthor of the award-winning publication Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (1996) and is coeditor with Oya Y. Rieger of RLG DigiNews. She and Ms. Rieger have written a new monograph, Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives, which was recently published by …