The theme for this year’s World Digital Preservation Day (4 November) is: ’Breaking Down Barriers’. Read More
To enable the enduring preservation of and access to documentary cultural heritage, including in digital form, in line with the UNESCO 2015 Recommendation, steps must be taken to preserve digitised and born-digital materials. The volume of digital information is almost incalculable, and continues to grow, which presents a significant challenge. Read More
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: MORE THAN BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY CREATIVE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS TO INNOVATIVE PACKAGING FOR PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL COLLECTIONS The presentation on an unusual topic – packaging. Short material is touching the archival context of packaging digital documents and physical items, especially for particular precious or delicate special… Read More
With the Internet having facilitated an explosion of digital content, libraries have worked hard to adapt their practices to deal with virtual documents. IFLA is already involved in the UNESCO Persist programme, but there is still much to lean about how to do it. Identifying what is… Read More