Below is Terry Cook’s appeal to the Canadian Archivists List for advocacy of the UNESCO Resolution on Digital Heritage Preservation. It is published here with the kind permission of the author. RB
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UNESCO Resolution on
Digital Heritage Preservation - ACA needs YOUR lobbying letter |
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9/14/01 5:54:20 PM Eastern
Daylight Time |
From:
tcook3957@home.com (Terry Cook) |
Dear ACA Colleagues:
UNESCO at its October meeting will
discuss an important draft resolution on the preservation of digital heritage
in archives and libraries. It will urge national governments,
organizations, and corporations to give greater attention and resources to what
it perceives as a critical situation concerning the long-term preservation of
digital media. Archivists obviously have a big stake in having both
attention and resources focused in the area of electronic records.
The Association of Canadian
Archivists has already sent a letter, signed by President Bryan Corbett, to the
Secretary General of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, with appropriate
copies to other senior officials and ministers. If archivists express
support for this draft UNESCO resolution in sufficient numbers, the Canadian
Commission will urge Canada to support the resolution. Please, therefore,
send your support -- these may be short e-mail messages or elaborate letters --
to David Walden, who is the Secretary General (and is a former National
Archives' archivist) and will welcome such supporting messages. He may be
reached at:
or at his address in the letter
below. Your messages should be sent within the next
week. For your information, the important parts of the draft
resolution are reproduced in President Corbett's letter below, as well as the
ACA's arguments. Please take ten minutes and make a difference.
Thanks. Terry
12
September 2001
David A. Walden Secretary General
Canadian Commission for UNESCO
350 Albert Street
Box 1047
Ottawa, ON KlP 5V8
[David.Walden@unesco.ca]