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Networking for Digital Preservation: Current Practice in 15 National Libraries

Libraries all over the world have to deal with fast growing numbers of digital materials that need to be safeguarded. Publications in digital form, online or on CD, digitised images, and born-digital objects need to be preserved and kept accessible. Safeguarding digital heritage is a major issue,… Read More

The Impact of Digital Technology on Contemporary and Historic Newspapers

Guidelines for Digitization Projects for collections and holdings in the public domain

Digital technology opens up a totally new perspective. The World Wide Web holds millions of websites and the Internet is the market place for research, teaching, expression, publication and communication of information. Libraries and archives are society’s primary information providers and were early users of the new digital technology… Read More

Maintaining our digital memory: a declaration of support for the World Summit on the Information Society

Español | français Communiqué from the Conference of Directors of National Libraries (CDNL) The National Libraries of the world are the guardians of the cultural heritage expressed in a nation’s documented memory which includes the digital information produced in the Information Society. Read More