Digital preservation in libraries : preparing for a sustainable future

In today's information landscape, there are fewer topics that more urgently demand expansive discourse than digital preservation, which touches on everything from technology to copyright. The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) steps up to the challenge with this comprehensive overview. Global in scope, it features case studies and contributions that discuss such key issues as

the history of digital preservation; digital preservation and information ethics; strategies for getting started, sustaining digitization programs, and performing evaluation; fine-tuning digital preservation workflows, with a look at Digital Streams Matrix for analyzing pathways and tasks; preserving e-books, mobile device data, and other specific types of materials; collaborative efforts in digital preservation, including jargon-free techniques for engaging non-technical colleagues in digital legacy tools and processes; and the copyright, legal, and administrative issues connected with digital preservation.

Academic librarians, technical services staff, technologists, and administrators will all benefit from this incisive collection.

A brief history of digital preservation / Erin Baucom -- Digital preservation as a thought experiment / Ross Spencer -- Digital preservation policy and strategy : where do I start? / Christine Madsen and Megan Hurst -- Sustaining the digital investment : a review of digital preservation strategies / Rosy Jan -- Defining your strategy for digitizing materials / Camilla Tubbs and Angela Fang Wang -- "So many options, so little time" : how to evaluate a digital preservation system that is right for your institution / Angela Fritz -- Digital preservation should be more holistic : a digital stewardship approach / Somaya Langley -- Planning and implementing digital preservation at Miami University Libraries / Ashley Jones and Eric Johnson -- What were we thinking? : successes and lessons learned after going live with our digital preservation program / Tawnya Mosier Keller and Jeremy Myntti -- A perfect ingest : examining our assumptions of an optimal digital ingest / Leigh Rosin -- Digital bibliodiversity at scholars portal : bridging standards and practices for e-books preservation / Grant Hurley -- Mobile device data preservation for cultural heritage institutions / Amanda May -- LOCKKS networks : community-based digital preservation / Aaron Trehub, Corey Davis, Mark Jordan, Cinda May, and Sam Meister -- Could collaborative research between two major libraries help consolidate digital preservation and break the "project cycle"? / Edith Halvarsson, Sarah Mason, Lee Pretlove, David Gerrard, Somaya Langley, James Mooney -- In medias res : an examination of work in progress at the academic preservation trust (APTrust) consortium / R.F. (Chip) German and Kara M. McClurken -- Networked approaches to preservation : learning from collaborative digital preservation efforts / Moriah Neils Caruso, Simon O'Riordan, Erin Wolfe, Liz Woolcott, Jennifer Mullins, and Drew Krewer -- Copyright conundrums : rights issues in digitization of library collections / Sara R. Benson -- Copyright and digital preservation : legal and administrative issues / Carla S. Myers.