...Thuy Thanh Bui; Ly Dieu Dinh; Lan Thi Nguyen Purpose Public libraries are essential in acquiring, preserving, and sharing cultural heritage information in the digital age through a variety of formats and activities. This study aimed to assess librarians’ awarenesses regarding the significance...

...Silke Sewing Purpose The purpose of this article is to present the implementation process in Germany and Austria of MARC 583 as an example for a supraregional cooperative library workflow in the fields of preservation and archiving. Design/methodology/approach Based upon PDA: Terminology...

... different opinions, e.g. regarding certain archiving standards, these were always solved by way of a compromise that guaranteed each institution a margin of discretion to preserve individual judgment. Claudius Herkt-Januschek can be contacted at: claudius.herkt-januschek@sub.uni-hamburg.de 01 11...

... in related large-scale projects. Library Preservation Collection management Conservation Collection transfer Preventive conservation Although traditionally focusing on bindings and remedial conservation, a major large-scale survey was performed in the 1970's by A. Glinos, one of the first book...

...Guillaume Niziers; Gabrielle Richard Purpose The study aims to highlight the outputs and issues of cooperative preservation and digitisation of journal collections in French higher education libraries. Design/methodology/approach Overview of the French shared preservation initiative...

...Ross Harvey Forde, Helen and Jonathan Rhys-Lewis Preserving Archives London Facet 2013 2nd ed. xiv, 272pp 978-1-85604-823-1 £49.95 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 --> Librarians Archives Preservation Archivists The first...

...Kirsty Fenn; Adrienne Muir Presents case studies of preservation management policies and practice in six independent libraries. The nature of the library buildings, collections, finance and management, preservation policies and practice were investigated. The libraries face similar preservation...

... retrieval Preservation Education Knowledge management This volume of ARIST follows the now familiar pattern of thorough reviews of selected topics. It has nine chapters, whose somewhat artificial grouping of chapters into four sections (two of which have only one chapter each) can...

... Manual for Disaster Control in Scottish Libraries (Anderson and McIntyre, 1985). Many libraries have used this as a model for their own plans (Feather et al., 1996, p. 9). The British Library published an outline disaster plan in 1987 (Tregarthen, 1987). The National Preservation...

...Paul Eden; Elizabeth Gadd Reports the findings of a BLRIC‐funded research project, which set out to identify and evaluate current and recent co‐operative preservation activities, and produce guidelines which will help librarians and archivists to engage in successful co‐operative preservation...

...John R. Turner Tony   Hendley . Comparison of Methods and Costs of Digital Preservation . British Library, London : British Library Research and Innovation Report 106   1998 . 122 pp. , ISBN: 0 7123 9713 2 © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> Digital mapping Graphics...

...John R. Turner Stephen E.   Ostrow . Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet . Washington, D.C.; Amsterdam : Council on Library and Information Resources; European Commission on Preservation and Access   1998 . 36 pp. , ISBN: 90 6984 221 1 © MCB UP...

...John R. Turner In any event, what other choice is there but to go along with digitisation? Whatever the present lack of archival reliability of digitisation, the system in future will probably be modified to become acceptable for preservation, or its shortcomings will be brushed aside and we...

...Paul Eden; Nancy Bell; Naomi Dungworth; Graham Matthews Describes the development and testing of a standard assessment method for the preservation needs of paper‐based and photographic materials (including microforms) in libraries, which will facilitate an assessment of national preservation needs...

...John Feather Preservation awareness is needed by all staff,and should be in professional education curricula and in subprofessional training courses. Technical training is largely in the hands of the binding industry, but as a profession we need to take a greater interest. Libraries...

... Preservation Co‐operation LIBRARY MANAGEMENT CONSERVATION IN WALES: SOME CO-OPERATIVE INITIATIVES Lawrence Rawsthorne To many librarians conservation is a new issue; most began the 1980s with an almost total lack of awareness that problems of conservation existed. Consequently many were also ignorant...