The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference Available to Purchase

The Folk Heritage Collections in Crisis conference pursued three themes: access, preservation, and intellectual property. The 100 invited participants were mainly middle‐aged, established, upper‐echelon professionals. What is interesting is how much agreement there was on issues like digital preservation and the use of encoded archival description. Participants saw the US copyright law as a barrier which neither upheld the rights of people of non‐European origin, nor facilitated the free movement of information.