Managing Preservation for Libraries and Archives ― Current Practice and Future Developments

Librarians will find this a useful resource for its guidelines on how to safely store materials that include paper, digital information, and sound recordings. Digital preservation and management are described in three separate chapters, written by librarians at the U. of Helsinki, Finland, the National Library of Australia, and Loughborough U. in the UK. Feather (library and information studies, Loughborough U.) has contributed an introduction outlining preservation principles and policies. A chapter by Marie-Therese Varlamoff (curator general, Bibliotheque Nationale de France) describes future trends; Graham Matthews (computing, information and English, U. of Central England, Birmingham) offers a lengthy chapter on the sources of information for digital preservation management. Annotation c2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

John Feather has been Professor of Library and Information Studies at Loughborough University in the UK since 1988, having previously worked at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He has a wide range of expertise in the field, including preservation management. Among his previous books are Preservation and the Management of Library Collections (Second Edition, 1996) and, with Graham Matthews and Paul Eden, Preservation Management. Policies and practices in British libraries (1996). He is a former Chair of the Rare Books Group of the Library Association, and has served on many international and national professional committees.