The core mission of libraries is to ensure perpetual access to the record of knowledge. As a review of the NASIG webinar (formerly North American Serials Interest Group), ‘Integrating Preservation into Librarian Workflows’, this article examines working models constructed to sustain perpetual access for their institutional communities. Two critically distinct aspects are highlighted. One is concerned with long-term preservation and the other addresses a library’s ability to provide post-cancellation access to its user community, given budgetary or physical space constraints. In 2022, NASIG approved the committee’s Model Digital Preservation Policy, which is supposed to be revised through shared library use cases.

The role of the Keepers Registry is also explained.

From web archives to television news to digitized books & periodicals, dozens of projects rely on the collections available at archive.org for computational & bibliographic research across a large digital corpus. This series will feature six sessions highlighting the innovative scholars that are using Internet Archive collections, services and APIs to support data-driven projects in the humanities and beyond.

This paper by Branka Marijanović and Hrvoje Stanĉić, based at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, examines digital archiving policies of open access electronic scholarly journals in Central Europe. They studied a sample of 1,589 journals registered with DOAJ and found that 69% of them have an archiving policy. Portico and national libraries are the most widely used archives. 19% of the preserved journals are archived in more than one archive. A comparison with Asian journals show that they are less archived than Central European ones.

Portico and the National Library of the Netherlands (KB) are partners of the ISSN International Centre as active archiving agencies contributing to Keepers Registry. In 2018, Portico and the KB worked together to establish an online replica of the Portico archive at the KB. They have now agreed to extend this hosting arrangement.

Hathi Trust has partnered with Athenaeum 21, a long-standing digital strategy and technology planning consultancy and collaborator in the library and cultural heritage community. The 3-part collaborative visioning process will help Hathi Trust connect with people throughout their member libraries — subject librarians, deans, collection managers, directors — as well as with HathiTrust staff and industry peers through the end of 2023.

The Archival Resource Key (ARK) is a persistent identifier supported by the California Digital Library and designed for any kind of information object, whether digital, physical, or conceptual. The number of ARK organizations has almost doubled since 2020. This follow-up briefing introduces ARKs as applied to archived scholarship, scientific samples, vocabulary terms, and biomedical information.

The Library of Congress has a new Digitization Strategy for its collections. The Strategy is intended to produce the following major results over its five-year life:

– Move toward a digital-forward and e-preferred acquisitions model.
– Support broad, diverse and inclusive collecting.
– Improve service and access for users.
– Modernize IT infrastructure to improve workflows and processes.
– Support digital collections workforce development.

IFLA’s PAC Centres are hubs of knowledge for documentary heritage preservation and access – hosted in major institutions around the world. PAC Centres take initiative to identify and raise awareness of preservation and conservation issues within the library field. Through this network, they engage with IFLA HQ to assist in capacity building and share information relevant to the global library field. Here are some of the activities carried out by IFLA PAC Centres over the past reporting period (2021-2022).

Depuis le 1^er octobre, BelgicaPeriodicals a franchi un cap symbolique en proposant plus d’un million de pages numérisées de revues belges disponibles en recherche plein texte. BelgicaPeriodicals donne accès à 134 revues et parutions périodiques datant du XVIII^e siècle à nos jours et conservées à la Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (KBR). Grâce à l’automatisation partielle des chaines de numérisation due à l’introduction de robots scanners dans le parc de numérisation, la KBR a pu considérablement accélérer le rythme de numérisation des revues conservées dans nos collections.