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Library of Canada Preservation of Documentary Heritage Print E-mail
2010-03-25

The information network explosion has challenged "memory institutions" i.e.
archives to adapt to new forms of digital information. As a result the
Library of Canada (LAC)  posted  both the Documentary Heritage
Management Framework and Acquisition  Orientation Instrument on
November 13, 2009.  This is based on the three  pillars of modernization:
acquisition, preservation and resource discovery.
 
LAC is now ready to post the Preservation Orientation Instrument, an
internal tool designed to "harmonize the principles underpinning the preservation of
documentary heritage" across Canada. LAC is also posting LAC Canada's
National Role in Preservation, a paper that outlines how they plan to
perform within the broad national context as the lead federal institution
for the preservation of Canada's documentary heritage. Both preservation
documents will be posted on the LAC website, to provide information and to
encourage feedback from internal and external clients.
 
The LAC invites comments on any of the modernization documents posted on the
collections Canada site.. On the left hand side of the
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/modernization/012004-2010-e.html  there
is a box that says "comments". Click on that url to submit your
comments/suggestions.
 
Thank you to Paul Silverstone, IAJGS Treasurer and IAJGS Public Records
Access Monitoring Committee for alerting us to this new posting on how the
LAC is addressing the new forms of digital information.