The Library of Congress offers Luminary Lectures for libraries. These typically are held once a month and offer a wide range of topics, but the best part about this is the convenience of viewing the lecture. The video of the lecture is presented in RealPlayer format. To view it, you must have the Real Player installed and at least a 28 K-bps (kilobits per second) Internet connection for your computer. The RealPlayer software may be downloaded, free of charge, from the RealNetwork website.

The next lecture will be held on Feburary 23rd, at 10:30-12:00 by Meg Bellinger regarding Stewardship in the Digital Age: Roles and Issues for Libraries for Preserving our Cultural Heritage. This lecture addresses the development and evolution of the digital repository, explores how digital preservation or archiving in the repository environment fundamentally differs from the purposes of preservation services in the past attempts to refine definitions.

Meg Bellinger has an outstanding history dealing with leadership, strategic planning, development, implementation, and project management of library information products and services, including preservation and digital life cycle management services, and special collections publishing for academic library markets. Her accomplishments range from all areas of library service from her current position as the Associate University Librarian for Integrated Library Systems to international library services.

For more information about Meg Bellinger and this upcoming lecture or other lectures that may interest you, go to http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/lectures/luminaries.html.