Virtually New, Creating the Digital Collection: A Review of Digitisation Projects in Local Authority Libraries and Archives

This is a very timely research report and directory of projects on a particularly relevant and topical subject. Much has been both said and done in recent years on research and special collections in university libraries in the UK, but the riches of the collections and numerous initiatives in local authority archives and libraries also need to be taken into account and set alongside all the other manifestations of our “heritage” of which they are as much a fundamental part as the more visible manifestations in historic buildings and monuments, museums or major national research libraries.

The report has two...