I recently participated in a lightning round panel, When the Rubber Hits the Road: Real-World Digital Preservation, at the annual meeting of the Midwest Archives Conference. My presentation, “Balancing the Ideal vs. Real,” examined the challenges we have encountered in implementing digital preservation environment, the Digital Collections system, here at OSU. My fellow panelists included, Laura Alagna, Northwestern University; Nat Wilson, Carleton College; Sarah Dorpinghaus and Doug Boyd, University of Kentucky, Michael Shallcross, University of Michigan; an Cinda
May, Indiana State University.