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Role and Justification of Web Archiving by National Libraries: A Questionnaire Survey
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Shiozaki, Ryo; Eisenschitz, Tamara – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2009
This paper reports on a questionnaire survey of 16 national libraries designed to clarify how national libraries attempt to justify their web archiving activities. Results indicate they envisage that a) the benefits brought about by their initiatives are greater than the overall costs, b) the costs imposed on libraries are greater than the costs…
Descriptors: Preservation, Government Libraries, Questionnaires, Library Automation
National Libraries Project on CD-ROM.
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Smith, Robert – Electronic Library, 1990
Describes cooperative project between the national libraries of the United Kingdom, France, West Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, and Italy that is working toward shared bibliographic data on CD-ROM. MARC conversion is discussed, problems with multilingual interfaces and linking CD-ROM to local library systems are addressed, and…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Cooperative Programs, Foreign Countries
The TESTLAB Project--Testing Systems Using Telematics for Library Access for Blind and Visually Handicapped Readers.
Deines-Jones, Courtney – Library Hi Tech News, 1998
Provides an overview of TESTLAB, a cooperative project of libraries in Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom that addresses improved library access for visually impaired users. A sampling of TESTLAB projects is presented, and a TESTLAB survey on electronic service provision is described. Future efforts and implications are…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Blindness, Document Delivery, Foreign Countries