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  • Preservation assessment surveys: an interdisciplinary approach 
    Walker, Alison (Igitur, 2003-09-16)
    In this paper I will discus a standard method of surveying collections to assess preservation need, how it has developed from a library model, to incorporate provision for archive collections, and how we are moving to apply ...
  • Open archive solutions to traditional archive/library cooperation 
    Castelli, Donatella (Igitur, 2003-09-22)
    The diffusion of Internet is changing the role of archives and libraries and it is opening a wide range of new possibilities. The new vision is that in few years it will be possible to cross-access multiple libraries, ...
  • Integrated Access to Hybrid Information Resources 
    Sadeh, Tamar (Igitur, 2003-09-15)
    This paper is entitled "Integrated access to hybrid information resources", but integrated access is just a means to reach an end. Our challenge is to create an integrated environment in a heterogeneous world. Users are ...
  • Life Cycle Collection Management 
    Shenton, Helen (Igitur, 2003-09-15)
    Life cycle collection management is a way of taking a long-term approach to the responsible stewardship of the British Library's collections and is one of the Library's strategic strands. It defines the different stages ...
  • Paper and digital repositories in the United States 
    Kohl, David F. (Igitur, 2003-09-22)
    What you've asked me to talk about today is basically what can libraries do with all the stuff they have and continue to get. Where do we put it all; what do we do with it? As we know, libraries have three core functions: ...
  • Digital Library for Access to Rare Materials. From pilot projects to national digitisation programmes 
    Knoll, Adolf (Igitur, 2003-09-08)
    More than ten years ago, a first image digitisation product was published by the National Library of the Czech Republic in co-operation with an almost unknown small software company. It was a CD-ROM requested by UNESCO for ...
  • The Challenges of Librarianship in the Expanding Library Service Worldwide 
    Jordan, Jay (Igitur, 2003-09-01)
    Good evening! It is an honor for me to participate in the LIBER conference. LIBER is a very important organization, and OCLC PICA was pleased to become one of the first patron sponsors of LIBER in 2002. We are very interested ...
  • Economic and strategic analysis of scientific journals: recent evolutions 
    Savenije, Bas (Igitur, 2003-09-15)
    Almost 75% of the current academic journals have gone online, even as they continue to be published in print. Furthermore, a rising number of new e-only journals are being started, most of them outside the range of traditional ...
  • Journals and Monographs: An Italian perspective 
    Casalini, Barbara (Igitur, 2003-09-15)
    When, some months ago, Prof. Dekeyser invited me to talk about the tendency to abandon Italian, as well as other European languages, in favour of the English language in the scientific periodicals sector, he obliged me to ...
  • The new cross-sectorial agency in Norway for archives, libraries and museums: plans and perspectives 
    Østby, Jon Birger (Igitur, 2003-09-16)
    First, I would like to thank for being invited to present the new cross-sectorial agency in Norway for archives, libraries and museums at the LIBER conference! I will start my presentation by giving you a brief introduction ...
  • Library planning in Germany 
    Geisselmann, Friedrich (Igitur, 2003-12-01)
    The position and the efficiency of German libraries are rather ambivalent. On the one hand the infrastructure is quite well developed: 2000 public library systems with full time personnel, 275 million books issued, 75 ...
  • Best of both worlds 
    Unknown author (Igitur, 2003-06-18)
    By the nineties of the twentieth century microfilming had finally reached a level of quality and durability that made it a safe and secure surrogate for books and documents that were threatened by acid paper decay. Large-scale ...
  • How can university and national libraries achieve deeper collaboration? 
    Follett, Brian K. (Igitur, 2003-09-08)
    Governments are placing great store in "the knowledge economy" as a key engine for economic and social development in a post-manufacturing world. One result is an acceptance for much increased expenditure on research and ...
  • Editorial 
    Bakker, Trix (Igitur, 2003-12-01)
  • Practice, organisation and quality control of digitization projects 
    Reerink, Henriette (Igitur, 2003-06-16)
    In the previous paper Dennis Schouten discussed the different aspects of preservation microfilming in projects carried out within the scope of Metamorfoze, the Dutch national preservation programme for library materials. ...
  • Practise, organisation and quality control of microfilming projects 
    Schouten, Dennis (Igitur, 2003-06-16)
    Nicholson Baker, his name has already been mentioned several times during this conference. In 1994 he published an erotic fantasy novel: The Fermata. I will not discuss the contents of this novel before this audience, but ...
  • Digitisation for access to preserved documents 
    Bremer-Laamanen, Majlis (Igitur, 2003-06-18)
    Today the digitisation of our collections is a goal for libraries all over Europe. The choices we make in digitisation and preservation now will have a significant impact on the future. Do we only emphasise access? How do ...
  • On the importance of recording microforms and digitised versions produced for preservation on the international level, with a focus on standards 
    Schwartz, Werner (Igitur, 2003-11-19)
    When we think about preserving our cultural heritage the first thing that comes to mind is how to find ways to properly store and protect the original works of art, literature and science. Our aim is to save them for our ...
  • Preservation of access? Developing strategies for microfilming and digitisation 
    Jefcoate, Graham (Igitur, 2003-06-16)
    First of all, I should like to thank Maria Luisa Cabral and the organisers of this LIBER workshop for inviting me to give this keynote address. I hardly need an excuse to come to the Hague and to the KB, the National Library ...
  • Quality management of microfilming projects 
    Van Dormolen, Hans (Igitur, 2003-06-16)
    I would like to tell you something about my work as quality manager microfilming and about the high quality standards for substitute microfilming we apply within the Dutch preservation programme Metamorfoze. Let me start ...