samuel bryant

Library Preservation Techniques

LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) is an open-source software program that functions as a persistent access preservation system. This program assists libraries in preserving e-journals by way of multiple low-cost PCs located in different...
Date Posted: November 27, 2008

Maintaining Content and Achieving Accessibility on the Internet’s Archive

The Internet Archive (archive.org) represents another example of working archival collections of digitally-based materials. It was founded in 1996 and works to keep Internet and digitally-based works from dissapearing forever.
Date Posted: November 27, 2008

Archival Practices in the Age of Computers and the Copyright Act

As a general theme in cataloging over the last century or so, the integration of cataloging types have been of great importance. One cataloging cavern that has been closing over the years is that of library and archival cataloging.
Date Posted: November 27, 2008