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Digital Preservation Material



For those of you who are interested in digital preservation.  More info
on this publication can be found at
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9940.html.

LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress
        Committee on an Information Technology Strategy for the Library of
Congress, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research
Council, 288 pages, 6 x 9, 2001.

        Digital information and networks challenge the core practices of
libraries, archives, and all organizations with intensive information
management needs in many respects-not only in terms of
accommodating digital information and technology, but also through the need
to develop new economic and organizational models for managing information.
LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of  Congress discusses these
challenges and provides recommendations for moving forward at the Library of
Congress, the world's largest library. Topics covered in LC21 include
digital collections, digital preservation, digital cataloging (metadata),
strategic planning, human resources, and general
management and budgetary issues. The book identifies and elaborates upon a
clear theme for the Library of Congress that is applicable more generally:
the digital age calls for much more collaboration and cooperation than in
the past. LC21 demonstrates that information-intensive  organizations will
have to change in fundamental ways to survive and prosper in the digital
age.


Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, MIT/LIT)
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
vjones@ci.newport-news.va.us

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