Preservation Strategies for Digital Libraries

Description

This book “Preservation Strategies for Digital Libraries” is the most current, complete guide to digital preservation available today. This book discussed the methods of digital preservation analysis the various types of preservation in traditional documents as well as preservation of digitalized forms of document using and latest technologies. Libraries are stores of large number of documentary sources such as records, manuscripts, books, films and other materials. Hence, all the materials need to preserve using different mechanisms so that the materials are available to the future generation also. For administrators and practitioners alike, the information in this book is presented readably, focusing on management issues and best practices. Although this book addresses technology, it is not solely focused on technology. After all, technology changes and digital preservation is aimed for the long term. This is not a how-to book giving step-by-step processes for certain materials in a given kind of system. Instead, it addresses a broad group of resources that could be housed in any number of digital preservation systems.