Digitisation for access to preserved documents

Today the digitisation of our collections is a goal for libraries all over Europe. The choices we make in digitisation and preservation now will have a significant impact on the future. Do we only emphasise access? How do we enable access and preserve our originals in a qualitative and productive wa...

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Main Author: Majlis Bremer-Laamanen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2003-06-01
Series:Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
Online Access:https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10314
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description Today the digitisation of our collections is a goal for libraries all over Europe. The choices we make in digitisation and preservation now will have a significant impact on the future. Do we only emphasise access? How do we enable access and preserve our originals in a qualitative and productive way? What will actually be left of our cultural heritage in the next millennium? In this paper I am going to look at promoting access to preserved originals mirrored by the experience at the Helsinki University Library, the National Library of Finland: · Preservation activities as platform for digitisation and OCR · Processing access to collections · The future - looking ahead
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