Preserving Digital Materials

This book provides a single-volume introduction to the principles, strategies and practices currently applied by librarians and recordkeeping professionals to the critical issue of preservation of digital information. It incorporates practice from both the recordkeeping and the library communities, taking stock of current knowledge about digital preservation and describing recent and current research, to provide a framework for reflecting on the issues that digital preservation raises in professional practice.

Ross Harveyis on the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston. He has held positions at universities in Australia, Singapore, and New Zealand. His research and teaching interests focus on the stewardship of digital materials in libraries and archives, particularly on its preservation. He has published widely in the fields of bibliographic organization, library education, and the preservation of library and archival material.