National Diet Library
National Diet Library Newsletter
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No. 154, April 2007 |
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Recent NDL
lecture programs
by leaders from abroad
The National Diet Library (NDL)
held a lecture
meeting titled "Digital Preservation in Development" on February 6,
2007, inviting Ms. Nancy McGovern, Digital Preservation Officer, Inter-university Consortium
for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).
She
outlined the foundations of
digital preservation and described the Open Archival Information System
(OAIS) which has been approved as the ISO standard (ISO14721:2003)
for
long-term preservation of digital resources. She introduced the trends
in the global digital preservation community and emphasized the need
for self-assessment, audit and certification to monitor the functions
of long-term digital preservation activities.
Ms. Jan Fullerton,
Director-General of the National
Library of
Australia (NLA), was invited to the NDL and gave a lecture titled
"The
Challenges of Managing a National Library in the Digital Age."
She talked about what the NLA
focused on in setting its goals and
what services they strove to provide for achieving the goals. She
introduced "Strategic Directions for 2006-2008" and explained that the
NLA's major undertaking in that period would be to enhance learning and
knowledge creation by further simplifying and integrating services that
allow its users to find and get material, and by establishing new ways
of collecting, sharing, recording, disseminating and preserving
knowledge.
She said that collaboration
with library colleagues, nationally
and internationally, was critical in making progress in collecting and
preserving online documents and introduced the NLA's partnership with
the International
Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC). She also
outlined the NLA's achievement in world-leading projects such as PANDORA and PictureAustralia. After
showing NLA's projects and
activities with a wealth of photo slides, she concluded that technology
was important but we must never forget that our endeavors were to meet
all the needs of people and that technology only helped us to do so.
In March, the NDL invited Mr.
Dirk J. Tang, Project Manager, Koninklijke
Bibliotheek
(National Library of the Netherlands; KB). He
gave a lecture titled "Digital Library Initiatives at the National
Library of the Netherlands" for the NDL staff members.
Mr. Tang introduced the history
and current activities of the KB. The
KB functions as a research library as well as a deposit library which
collects domestic materials exhaustively based on agreements with
publishers.
The KB promotes projects on
acquisition and preservation of electronic
resources and digitization. In 2002, it became the first national
library to build a digital repository of academic resources (e-Depot).
He outlined the "Policy Plan 2006-2009" whose main objectives are:
He also introduced various
electronic exhibitions and suggested a
future cooperative project of an electronic exhibition between the KB
and the
NDL, referring to the Dutch-American relationship built through one of
those exhibitions.
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