National Library of Australia Staff Papers, 2003

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Barriers or Stepping Stones? Imkpediments to Digital Archiving and Preservation Programs

Colin Webb

Abstract


Short report

The National Library of Australia (NLA), one of several institutions that have set up digital archiving programs, would probably report that an organization having the will and need to establish a preservation program would encounter surprisingly few barriers in doing so. However, a number of impediments may delay the creation of a fully effective program.

The paragraphs that follow describe some of the stumbling blocks that the NLA has met in developing its preservation program. In some cases, the library has been able to make them into a stepping-stone to the next level of development; in other cases, the stumbling blocks seem to have become impassable barriers.


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