Preserving long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing libraries and information centers today. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has entered into partnership agreements with federal and state agencies to ensure permanent storage and public access to a variety of government information sources. As digital resource preservation encompasses a ...

library standardization is mainly concerned with technical services, space and equipments, and information content of library collection with little or no regards to the user. given every country's certain social, economical and cultural conditions, specialized libraries should engage increasingly in developing information literate users on the basis of standards, rather than standardizing tech...

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IT HAS BEEN GENERALLy AGREED IN RECENT YEARS that information needs are growing more rapidly than the abilities of research libraries and information centers to · meet them. Most often, the reason given for this phenomenon has been the growth in the amount of pub. lished literature. Two additional reasons, which are little noted though perhaps more important, will be discussed here, along with ...

In 2002 Quebec's National Assembly hosted an international conference on the history of parliamentary libraries. On that occasion, Gaston Bernier called for more research on the history of parliamentary libraries , inviting researchers to make use of the rich and unexplored archives of parliamentary libraries throughout the world (2003). This historical overview features some of the most promin...