Product Description: Digital preservation is an issue of huge importance to the library and information profession. With the widescale adoption of the internet, the world has been overwhelmed by digital information. This volume uses case studies and examples to ground the ideas and theories in real concerns and practice...read more

Product Description: The rise of the Internet and the rapid expansion of electronic information present new challenges for librarians who must acquire, store, organize, preserve, and disseminate this information to their users. How can you locate the electronic resources most relevant to the needs of your users, integrate those resources into the infrastructure of your institutions, manage the necessary technology, and anticipate future trends? Deegan and Tanner suggest both the why and the how in this meticulous and completely practical examination of the strategic issues we face in a digital future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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