 WHC
NEWS
WORLD HAIKU REVIEW
selected by Harvard University to be preserved through
LOCKSS
Stanford University Library's online archival system
...let us save what
remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and
use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of
copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.
—Jefferson, Thomas. [1791] 1984.
Thomas Jefferson to Ebenezer Hazard, Philadelphia, February 18, 1791. In
Thomas Jefferson: Writings: Autobiography, Notes on the State of Virginia,
Public and Private Papers, Addresses, Letters, edited by Merrill D.
Peterson. New York: Library of America
World Haiku Review, the online magazine of the
World Haiku Club, is now being preserved for posterity through the LOCKSS
archival program of Stanford University. In 2004, the offices of WHC were
contacted by Ms. Victoria Reich, Director of the LOCKSS Program at Stanford
University Libraries with the news that World Haiku Review had been chosen
for inclusion by Harvard University.
The
LOCKSS Program ('lots of copies keep stuff safe') is a group of research
libraries who are working to collect and preserve important web published
content for future scholars. With funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation, the New York Public Library hosted a meeting in February
2004, to consider using the LOCKSS system to collect and preserve
born-digital, freely available e-journals. Now, through the LOCKSS Alliance,
interested libraries can build their local digital collections of
documents as cultural artifacts, including all genres, formats, media. More
than 80
libraries around the globe are now participating in LOCKSS World Haiku
Review is among those
journals archived in LOCKSS Humanities Project.
From those of us at
the World Haiku Club and its online magazine, World Haiku Review to Ms.
Reich and the LOCKSS project staff, we offer our deep thanks and
appreciation.
For
centuries libraries and publishers have had stable roles: publishers
produced information; libraries provided access to this information.
Libraries, through their collection programs, provide access to information
and knowledge to current and future generations of readers. The evolution of
the Web has disrupted this critical library role. Libraries haven't had an
easy way to build digital collections, nor had any assurance that a digital
collection - once obtained - would remain accessible to future generations.
Publishers are being asked to assure persistent access to content - a
function well outside of their core mission. The LOCKSS Program addresses
these issues. LOCKSS is open source, peer-to-peer software that functions as
a persistent access preservation system. Information is delivered via the
web, and stored using a sophisticated but easy to use caching system. Simply
put, LOCKSS provides for Jefferson's "multiplication of copies," but with an
electronic twist. -
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