Key Initiative 1: Digital Content Programme

Driving access to content, and digital resources, for library users

IFLA working collaboratively to build a legal, technical and professional base that enables libraries to play a major role in collecting, preserving, and offering wide access to all types of physical and digital materials:

  • digital legal deposit - with a focus on legislative certainty for deposit and library user access
  • digital lending - with a focus on library user access to e-resources, and inter-organisation/cross-border uses compatible with fair practice
  • mass digitisation - with a focus on IFLA facilitating information exchange for the library sector
  • digital preservation - with a focus on legal mechanisms for harvesting and preserving born digital information and local content hosted on websites and in social media

Full text of Key Inititiative 1

Activities (abbreviated from full description)

    Last update: 29 November 2012