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Guidelines

Formal or published guidelines prepared to assist publishers, creators and libraries in their activities related to information delivery.

Keeping government publications online: guidelines for commonwealth publishers
This brochure, published in July 2002, explains how collaboration between agencies, the National Library of Australia and the National Archives of Australia will help to ensure that online Commonwealth Government publications remain available to Australians into the future.
Safeguarding Australia's web resources: guidelines for creators and publishers
These guidelines are intended primarily to assist those creators and publishers who do not already have well established digital data management procedures in place. They could, for instance, be working in the academic, government and not-for-profit sectors, and include independent creators and newly established web publishers.
Guidelines for the creation of content for resource discovery metadata
The guidelines are intended to assist with the creation of quality, consistent descriptive metadata for online resources that will improve resource discovery services for these resources.
Managing web resources for persistent access
Creators, publishers, libraries and other information repositories all have a vital role to play in ensuring web-based information resources can be located and accessed for use in the current environment and into the future. The guidelines are intended to assist those responsible for the management of published online materials to make sure links made to those resources continue to work.
Recommended practices for digital preservation
This brochure aims to provide broad but practical advice for those with a long-term responsibility for the management and preservation of digital materials. It describes the need for digital preservation and provides points for consideration in developing digital preservation programs.
Guidelines for preservation microfilming in Australia & New Zealand
These guidelines have been developed in response to a resolution of the 1994 National Preservation Office Adelaide Conference: Preservation Microfilming: Does It Have a Future? At this conference it was apparent that there was a need for an authoritative Australian document guidance in preservation microfilming matters. The guidelines are a 1998 print publication, ISBN 0 642 10691 6.
Guidelines for the content of Library websites
Published in Australian Libraries Gateway, 1998, the guidelines are an attempt to assist libraries to develop websites that contain the information their patrons and offsite users require.
Guidelines for audio and audiovisual recording in the South Pacific
Written by Edgar Waters in 1995, and prepared in consultation with Kevin Bradley, Manager of the Library's Sound Preservation and Technical Services, these guidelines form a readable and practical handbook, free of jargon, that can be distributed to ASPCF applicants and to other field workers needing guidance on the equipment best suited to their purposes and budgets. Although written primarily with the climatic and economic conditions of the South Pacific in mind, the guidelines have applicability in other developing regions.

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