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What Should We Preserve? The Question for Heritage Libraries in a Digital World

Phillips, Margaret E.

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Title
What Should We Preserve? The Question for Heritage Libraries in a Digital World
Author(s)
Phillips, Margaret E.
Issue Date
2005
Keyword(s)
  • digital preservation
  • collection policy
Abstract
A primary role of national libraries is to document the published output of their respective countries. Traditionally, this has meant collecting, describing, and preserving for future generations at least one copy of every item published in print, including books, serials, newspapers, maps, music, posters, and pamphlets. In the last decade, online publishing has had a revolutionary impact on the creation, publication (dissemination), and use of information. This has presented libraries, particularly national (deposit) libraries and other cultural collecting institutions, with the daunting task of collecting, storing, describing, managing, and preserving the vast quantities of information that are being produced online. (from the article)
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/2454
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Copyright 2005 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 54 (1) Summer 2005: Digital Preservation: Finding Balance PRIMARY
Library Trends 54 (1) Summer 2005: Digital Preservation: Finding Balance. Edited by Deborah Woodyard-Robinson