"The National Library of Australia (NLA) believes that the key to developing successful models of digital preservation lies in corporation: sharing information as well as sharing responsibility" (Berthon, 2002, p. 4). This quote was said due to the fact that Australian libraries have been archiving and preserving their digital national bibliographic databases which has laid the foundation for other libraries to follow.
One of the ways in which Australian libraries preserve and archive their resources is through a system called PANDORA. PANDORA is a selective National Collection of Australian Online Publications established by the National Library of Australia. They use this system to archive their digital resources as well as to share information with other libraries and organizations around the world. "Although most users of the PANDORA program do not utilize all the aspects it has to offer, it still provides collection managers in each of the partner agency to gather web publications and to manage access to them" (Berton, 2002, p. 4).
SOUND OFF!!!!!!!!!
What are your feelings about agencies collaborating up with other countries to develop a national database of information?
References
Berton, H. (August, 2002). Nurturing our digital memory: digital archiving and preservation at the National Library of Australia. International Preservation News, 27, 4-7.
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We have the Library of Congress and OCLC that help to collect information in one place for use in developing individual OPACs. I would be nice to have an international cooperative program.
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