...Muhammad Hamza; Ahsan Ullah Purpose Digital preservation in university libraries is designed to foster long-term access to and stewardship of knowledge resources. This study aims to examine the sustainability of preservation policies, technologies and strategies. Design/methodology/approach...

...Rose Sliger Krause; Andrea Langhurst Eickholt; Justin L. Otto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the music performance collection preserved in Eastern Washington University’s institutional repository (IR). This collection of recordings of student music performances is the result...

... for relevant answers. The result was a decision to collect historic materials in a digital archive to make them available to anyone in the law school who might field such inquiries and to preserve them for future interest. The purpose of this case study is to provide a blueprint for building a digital archives...

...Thomas C. Wilson Purpose This paper aims to clarify a mechanism for determining the robustness of digital preservation options given that the field has matured and contains a number of alternatives. Design/methodology/approach By examining the component activities of digital preservation...

... it significantly would benefit scholars of Middle Eastern texts in much the same way digital repositories have revolutionized online text access for the Western world. Originality/value The project is unique in that it is believed to the first production-level, digital preservation-specific Syriac digital...

...Heidi Dowding Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the national university in developing sustainable cultural heritage digital preservation practices. Design/methodology/approach – Using Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan as an example, this paper discusses...

...Andy Stauder Purpose – The author conducted a survey with regard to the situation of audiovisual media in European higher education, with regard to quantities, storage conditions, digitisation, and digital preservation of audiovisual media, and attitudes towards these topics. This paper aims...

...Nancy Melin Nelson Discusses the dedication of the new MAPS micrographics laboratory in Pennsylvania. Considers the facilities of the new building,similarities between OCLC and MAPS, the history of MAPS, and the future of micrographics preservation. Concludes that microform is not obsolescent...

...Thomas F. R. Clareson Reflects on the initiatives being taken by OCLC to educate librarians about preservation of library collections. Describes the techniques whereby libraries can create bibliographic records containing preservation data. Reviews the research being carried out in the field...