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Libraries are scaling up their digitization, digital scholarship, digital archiving, and data management programs. All of this effort could be lost to a major failure of technology, a shift in administrative priorities, or a loss of institutional memory. The loss would not be just the materials themselves, but also the resources used to build and promote these collections to users. This issue of Library Technology Reports will help libraries create transparent and enduring digital preservation workflows that will help them maintain consistent and transparent practices when acquiring, accessioning, stabilizing, processing, providing access to, and preserving their digital materials.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Workflow Basics
Chapter 3: Acquisition Workflow
Chapter 4: Accessioning and Stabilization Workflow
Chapter 5: Processing Workflow
Chapter 6: Access Workflow
Chapter 7: Maintaining Digital Materials over Time
Chapter 8: Conclusion
"Fulfils an important need for practitioners by maintaining a practical, logical focus on essential digital preservation activities. It steers away from general theory and conceptual digital preservation, in favour of an extremely detailed, useful and concrete guide. It successfully bridges the gap between the concept of digital preservation and the steps needed to achieve it."
— Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association