Archiving, preservation and digitization

Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage.

AV collections in libraries are disintegrating, and their playback equipment is soon to be obsolete.

Volume 33 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization will look at different challenges library administrators encounter, review emerging trends and bring critical analysis to this area.

An up-to-date examination of the evolving field of digital curation and its important place in libraries, covering the major technical, social, and organizational issues surrounding curation for libraries, archives, and other information-based organizations.

In recent years, libraries and archives all around the world have increased their efforts to digitize historical manuscripts.

Since the early 20th century, American academic libraries have collected and championed rare and unique non-circulating materials now referred to as special collections.

Verstehen Sie alle Veränderungen in der Gesundheitsversorgung rund um das Thema "Digitalisierung"?

Die Digitalisierung stellt die klassische Souveränität vor erhebliche Probleme.

Preservation of historical documents and library related materials is a growing problem in all library types and institutions.

This accessible and highly practical book provides an introductory guide to the world of research support in the academic library.

Trauma-informed practices have become an increasingly essential part of librarianship since the COVID-19 global pandemic.

Volume 32 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a collection of studies which highlight up and coming issues that today's library managers and researchers face.

Most libraries, archives and museums around the globe are now confronting the challenges of providing digital access to their collections.

Die „Christliche Weltchronistik“ stellt für fast eineinhalb Jahrtausende die fundamentale Form christlichen Geschichtsdenkens dar.

This fully revised and updated second edition of Understanding Digital Libraries focuses on the challenges faced by both librarians and computer scientists in a field that has been dramatically altered by the growth of the Web.

Die Alexander-Ecker-Sammlung - eine große anthropologische Sammlung - befindet sich heute im Besitz der Universität Freiburg.

Preservation involves a complex of activities including climate, air-quality, and surface control, as well as microbiological control, which is a key part of preserving and protecting library collections.

Project Gutenberg is more significant as a place for community building than the first ebook publisher.

Many organizations do not yet have a formal programme of records management, but increasingly they are recognizing the benefits of well managed records and the serious consequences of inadequate records systems.

This book examines the changing roles of the librarian and how working within a rich digital environment has impacted on the ability of professionals to develop the appropriate 'know how', skills, knowledge and behaviours required in order to operate effectively.

Archival Science in Interdisciplinary Theory and Practice brings together scholars, practicing archivists, and records managers to discuss key issues in the conceptual and theoretical frameworks of the profession.

As libraries strive to maintain collections with limited space, many have turned to high-efficiency, off-site shelving facilities.

A notable feature in cultural life is the growing demand to preserve and promote public access to historical buildings and sites, and artistic treasures of the past.

Volume 33 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization will look at different challenges library administrators encounter, review emerging trends and bring critical analysis to this area.

This practical and explanatory guide for library and cultural heritage professionals introduces and explains the use of open licences for content, data and metadata in libraries and other cultural heritage organisations.

Vergaberechtliche Vorgaben sollen Wirtschaftlichkeit, Transparenz und Qualität bei der Auftragsvergabe sicherstellen.

Es wird höchste Zeit, dass wir uns die Digitalisierung sinnvoll zunutze machen – und zwar so, dass alle etwas davon haben!

Con los diferentes desarrollos tecnológicos actuales, el profesional de la información se hace fundamental para la sociedad, pues inscribe en ella sus bases productivas y funcionales.

Es begann damit, dass Nicholson Baker, erfolgreicher Autor von Romanen wie «Vox» und «Die Fermate», in der Zeitschrift «The New Yorker» einen Artikel darüber veröffentlichte, dass die Computerisierung der Kataloge einem Bibliotheksbesuch viel von seinem Charme und seiner Effizienz genommen habe.

The Care of Fine Books is a thorough, readable guide to caring for books of value.

"En los últimos 30 años los procesos de reconocimiento de los acontecimientos, actores, escenarios y consecuencias del conflicto armado en Colombia, así como la crisis de las identidades globales en los países de Europa, Norteamérica, Latinoamérica y otras latitudes, han movilizado una serie de cuestionamientos y búsquedas sobre la memoria (o memorias) y su configuración en escenarios desafiantes —como los de las justicias transicional y restaurativa—, así como la emergencia de nuevas manifestaciones del patrimonio.

Las investigaciones reunidas en este libro reconstruyen las historias de los principales archivos documentales oficiales de la Norpatagonia, pero también de los nuevos archivos surgidos en el ámbito de comunidades, organizaciones y colectivos sociales subalternizados en las lógicas y burocracias que signaron la conformación de los primeros.

Die den Menschen durch die Verfassungen verbrieften Freizügigkeiten, werden oft als Freiheit verstanden, doch die Freiheit existiert schon lange nicht mehr.

Hier könnt Ihr in den Schwerpunkt "Bauwerke" im Bereich "Bauen" hereinschnuppern und herausfinden, was an Gebäuden, Straßen, Brücken, Fountonplatten, Errinerungs-Steine sowie vieles weitere, Interessant sein kann, und wie die Erde mit allen Bauwerken darin, jederzeit zum "Besseren" Umgestaltet werden kann.

This book employs a familiar vehicle in library literaturethe case studybut in a departure from the expected, takes that time-honored genre into a new dimension.

Libraries have been traditionally associated with managing physical resources, however with the rise of the Internet and the rapid expansion of electronic communication media, information gathering, storage and transmission have presented fresh challenges to those responsible for preserving the cultural memory of society.