In July 2011, Dr. Younger became the executive director for the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) after serving as the first chair of the Board of Directors. Prior to that, she led the Libraries at the University of Notre Dame where she and the expert library staff successfully carried out many initiatives that enhanced services and collections locally, nationally and internationally. She continues her affiliation with Notre Dame as the Edward H. Arnold Director of Hesburgh Libraries Emerita. Prior to that she served in administrative positions at The Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also received her education and degrees in librarianship. Dr. Younger continues as a leader in state, national, and international library organizations, having served on the boards of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Academic Libraries of Indiana (ALI) and the OCLC, a global library cooperative. She has published numerous articles on topics including cataloging and metadata, the challenges of cooperation and transforming libraries for the global information society and is invited frequently to speak at conferences. Most recently, for the second year, she was a co-presenter on best practices in digital archiving at the Catholic Media Conference, the annual conference of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.

1. Digital Preservation: Aggregated,
Collaborative, Catholic
Dodging the Memory Hole: Saving Online
News, October 14, 2016
Jennifer Younger, Executive Director,
CRRA

2. Many voices bring value
• CRRA non-profit, 44 members and partners
• 25+ Sourcing Partners – libraries, diocesan
archives, newspaper publishers
• 23 Founders (financial) and counting
• Advisers – Catholic Press Association, Center
for Research Libraries, scholars, attorneys,
experts in digitization, preservation, digital
newspaper collections and repositories

3. The Catholic News Archive
• Digitize
• Set up platform
• Include digitized
& born digital
• Provide access
• Preserve digital
files

4. thecatholicnewsarchive.org
• 13,000 pages from 7 papers in mid-60’s
• 119,000 pages funded, in progress
• Permissions in hand from copyright owners
(archdioceses and newspapers) to produce,
make available and digitally archive
• Global, enduring, freely available access
• Shared costs
• Leadership by and for the community

5. thecatholicnewsarchive.org
• Target is 350,000 pages from 11 papers by
mid-2018
• Community platform
• More papers want to join
• Digitized & born digital
• Inception through 2013, rolling horizon
• Make it easy for publishers to transfer new
content to the archive

6. Digital preservation today
• Print, film Catholic newspapers are archived
• Digital preservation close to zero
• Too expensive -beyond the capacity of
individual newspapers, libraries and archives
• Everyone wants it
• Sharing costs will make it possible

7. Approach to digital preservation
• Choose established program - MetaArchive
Cooperative
• Provide services to participants
• Shared costs, lower costs for all
• Develop a long-term sustainability plan
–who pays for what
–potential revenue, for what, to whom?
• Bring stakeholders together
• Leadership by and for the community

8. How digital preservation works
• Multiple dark archives, redundant storage
• Geographically distributed
• LOCKSS (http://lockss.org) or other open
software is basis for repository
• Audit collections
• Check files, metadata for bit-integrity

9. More on how it works
• Repair corruption or loss from a good copy
• Recovery scenarios for repair or loss only
• Refresh storage media
• Have retirement & replacement policies
• Migrate collection data reliably, securely
• Monitor format changes, migration needs
• Could export collections to other repositories

10. Trusted digital repositories
• Skilled management and operation
• Standards - OAIS, DRAMBORA, TRAC, NISO
• Systematic audits - self, by external entity
• Certification and assessment of digital
repositories such as by the Center for
Research Libraries

11. Partners & founders say yes
• Make the leap to full digital preservation
• Tell our story
• What’s online gets used
• New opportunities for comparative research
• Digital humanities is here
• Catholic Newspapers Program at
http://www.catholicresearch.net/cms/index.php
/catholic-newspapers/

12. Thank you
• Help wanted! Advice, suggestions, funding
• A long way to go
• Jennifer Younger at jyounger@nd.edu
• thecatholicnewsarchive.org
• www.catholicresearch.net
• Our mission: provide enduring global access to
Catholic research resources in the Americas