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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
>
>==--00--==
>
>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
>Leon.Miller@tulane.edu
>http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/SpecCollHomepage.html
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