Digital Preservation and Metadata: History, Theory, Practice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781563087776)

Protect your digital resources! This book addresses critical issues of preservation, giving you everything you need to effectively protect your resources-from dealing with obsolescence, to responsibilities, methods of preservation, cost, and metadata formats. It also gives examples of numerous national and international institutions that provide frameworks for digital libraries and archives. A long-overdue text for anyone involved in the preservation of digital information, this book is critical in understanding today's methods and practices, intellectual discourse, and preservation guidelines. A must for librarians, archiving professionals, faculty and students of library science, administrators, and corporate leaders!

Author: Susan S. Lazinger
ISBN-10: 1563087774
ISBN-13: 9781563087776
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2001
Pages: 359
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 8.78h x 6.02w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2002 pg. 140