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Re: fixed archival responsibility?




Look at the latest issue of CLIR Issues No. 15, May/June 2000.  The lead story is "Establishing Minimum Requrements for Archival  Repositories."  It is all about the persistence of electronic journals.  

At 11:07 AM 5/26/00 -0500, you wrote:

>A university library collection policy for databases and online journals
>contains the following statement.
>
>"Archiving: The [name withheld to protect the innocent] Library shares with
>other research and educational institutions the responsibility to determine
>the most effective methods for the long-term preservation of the digital
>materials accessed by the Library but not stored locally. It has a special
>preservation responsibility for digital resources it develops that are
>unique to its collections. Resources for which specific archiving
>responsibility has been established are sought; resources lacking fixed
>archival responsibility are considered only selectively and under special
>circumstances."
>
>---
>
>OK. What they mean is that they will purchase online journals only from
>vendors who promise to keep back issues of the journals available, even to
>institutions that no long subscribe to the online journal.
>
>I was wondering if listserv members had any reaction to the use of the terms
>"archiving," "preservation," and "fixed archival responsibility" in this
>way.
>
>Lee
>
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>Leon C. Miller, Manuscripts Librarian
>Special Collections, Jones Hall, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
>Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
>Ph: 504-865-5685, Fx: 504-865-5761
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