... heritage institutions, such as Culturenet Cymru, the National Library of Wales, the National Museum Wales, and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales has been in progress since the 1990s. An overview of this work is given, along with details of how the People's Collection...

...Steve Knight Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief description of the digital preservation programme at the National Library of New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach Following a description of the legislative and strategic context for digital preservation in New Zealand...

...Vigdis Moe Skarstein Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the challenges faced in digitising copyright‐protected books and other materials within the National Library of Norway. Design/methodology/approach Following a description of Bokhylla, or The Bookshelf...

... involve the National Library of New Zealand. Findings The four components of the New Zealand Digital strategy: connection; content; confidence; and collaboration have been driven by the library and information sector. Originality/value The paper provides a personal insight, by the National...

...Fleur Stigter Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of The Bridging Worlds Conference which was held in October 2008 in Singapore. Design/methodology/approach One of the main topics the National Library Board of Singapore, the organising party, wished to address...

... by the National Library of Australia and processing costs of cataloguing Croatian print publications. Findings The bottom‐up analysis of processing web resources shows that a balanced description of tasks and their distribution over staff members was established, and that the present workflow meets...

...R. Arwel Jones Purpose This paper aims to provide an overview of developments in digitisation policy and practice at the National Library of Wales (NLW) from 1995 to 2007 and drawing out the lessons learnt. Design/methodology/approach A chronological overview of developments focusing...

...Khalid Mahmood Purpose This paper aims to analyse features and functions of indigenously developed web‐based catalogues of academic, special and national libraries of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach The assessment of 16 OPACs is based on a 91‐item checklist developed with the help...

...Manon Foster Evans; Siân Thomas Purpose This paper aims to describe the experiences of the National Library of Wales in implementing an integrated information management system. Design/methodology/approach Discusses the stages involved in the procurement process, data migration and general...

... at a non‐technological university library, where book titles would tend to be much less descriptive of the contents (Bryant et al., 1972). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Library automation History United Kingdom University libraries National libraries This paper...

...Jan Pisanski; Maja Žumer Purpose An overview of the contents and design of web pages of the European national libraries. Design/methodology/approach The theoretical part features the concepts, problems and guidelines for design related to web sites of national libraries. Based...

...Mel Collier The European Library (TEL) project aims to give digital access to the combined resources of the national libraries of Europe, operating under the auspices of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). A preparatory project, part funded by the European Union, ran from January...

...Juha Hakala Preserving the published cultural heritage of a country is a major concern of any national library, and the challenge of archiving and preserving information published on the Web is great. A short history of Web archiving in Europe from the Swedish Kulturarw3 project to the Nordic Web...