This book brings together some of the leading contemporary international authorities on legal deposit to explore two primary questions. First, what is the impact of electronic legal deposit on the 21st Century library? And second, what does the future hold for libraries as legal deposit collections meet the digital age?
Since legal deposit regulations were introduced in the United Kingdom and Germany in the 17th Century, societies have benefitted from the systematic preservation of our written cultural record by a small number of trusted national and academic libraries. This book brings together some of the leading contemporary international authorities on legal deposit to explore two primary questions. First, what is the impact of electronic legal deposit on the 21st Century library? And second, what does the future hold for libraries as legal deposit collections meet the digital age?
The 2013 announcement of e-Legal Deposit brought, for the first time, written information online under the purview of the UK Legal Deposit Libraries, a trend evident across the world. This was heralded as a vital step in preserving the UK's "digital universe", a grand assertion that requires careful interrogation. In particular, while the regulations allow for the systematic collection of digitised and born-digital texts, they also prescribe how these materials can be accessed by the public in the short to medium term. The interface between legal deposit as an activity for posterity, and open data-driven approaches to research and government, define the nature of this mooted digital universe. Electronic Legal Deposit draws on evidence gathered from real-world case studies produced in collaboration with world-leading libraries, researchers and practitioners, as well as provide a thorough overview of the state of legal deposit at an important juncture in the history of library collections. The book addresses issues such as
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'Some may expect the book to be of interest to only a small number of institutions that participate in electronic legal deposit schemes. However, the importance of legal deposit to the access and preservation of the scholarly record commends this book to a wider audience. The integral role of legal deposit in association with Open Access and digital preservation initiatives broadens the potential readership further... Comprehensive references provide excellent links to further reading' - JALIA 'Electronic Legal Deposit provides an enlightening look at an important part of preserving cultural documents for future generations. Given the ephemeral nature of electronic resources, getting the processes for electronic legal deposit firmly in place today is a vital piece of maintaining the historical record of our era.' -- Zachariah S. Motts * Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship *
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PART 1 INSTITUTIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION |
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1 UK non-print legal deposit: from regulations to review |
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2 The influence of legal deposit legislation on the digital collections of the National Library of Scotland |
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3 E-legal deposit at the Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico (National Library of Mexico) |
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4 Bibliographic control in Zimbabwe: the conundrum of legal deposit in the age of digital technologies |
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5 Electronic legal deposit in Sweden: the evolution of digital publications and legislative systems |
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PART 2 USERS AND CONTEXTS |
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6 Publishers, legal deposit and the changing publishing environment |
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7 Making history: digital preservation and electronic legal deposit in the second quarter of the 21st century |
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8 Giving with one click, taking with the other: electronic legal deposit, web archives and researcher access |
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9 Follow the users: assessing UK non-print legal deposit within the academic discovery environment |
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10 `An ark to save learning from deluge? Reconceptualising legal deposit after the digital turn |
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Paul Gooding is Senior Lecturer in Information Studies at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses on the impact of digital library collections on institutions and users. He was Principal Investigator on Digital Library Futures (2017-2019), an AHRC-funded project to analyse the impact of Non-Print Legal Deposit on UK academic libraries. Paul holds an MA in Library and Information Studies (2007) and a PhD in Digital Humanities (2014) from University College London. From 2014 to 2018 he was Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of East Anglia, where he founded and led the UEA Digital Humanities incubator, and before undertaking his PhD worked as a librarian for BBC Sport.
Melissa Terras is Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburghs College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, leading digital aspects of CAHSS research as Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture and Society, and Director of Research in the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research focuses on the use of computational techniques to enable research in the arts, humanities, and wider cultural heritage and information environment that would otherwise be impossible. She previously directed UCL Centre for Digital Humanities in UCL Department of Information Studies, where she was employed from 2003-2017. Books include Image to Interpretation: An Intelligent System to Aid Historians in Reading the Vindolanda Texts (2006, Oxford University Press), Defining Digital Humanities: A Reader (Ashgate 2013), and Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Childrens Literature" (Cambridge University Press 2018). She is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, and Trustee of the National Library of Scotland. You can generally find her on twitter @melissaterras.
