Towards a national print repository for Australia: Where from and where to?

In recent years there has been a growing international interest in the development of shared facilities to house legacy print collections as a means of providing cost-effective and secure storage. These 'repositories' have in some cases been successfully implemented on a national scale. Th...

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Main Author: Genoni, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Published: Australian Library and Information Association 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40636
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description In recent years there has been a growing international interest in the development of shared facilities to house legacy print collections as a means of providing cost-effective and secure storage. These 'repositories' have in some cases been successfully implemented on a national scale. This article traces the recent history of Australian attempts to reach a similar national solution to the space problems that afflict many of our research libraries. It argues that although these negotiations have not been successful to date, the opportunity still exists to re-open discussions, and makes suggestions regarding the organisational structures that are needed to bring about a successful outcome.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-406362017-09-13T13:41:44Z Towards a national print repository for Australia: Where from and where to? Genoni, Paul Print Repositories Library Storage CAUL In recent years there has been a growing international interest in the development of shared facilities to house legacy print collections as a means of providing cost-effective and secure storage. These 'repositories' have in some cases been successfully implemented on a national scale. This article traces the recent history of Australian attempts to reach a similar national solution to the space problems that afflict many of our research libraries. It argues that although these negotiations have not been successful to date, the opportunity still exists to re-open discussions, and makes suggestions regarding the organisational structures that are needed to bring about a successful outcome. 2007 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40636 10.1080/00048623.2007.10721279 Australian Library and Information Association fulltext
spellingShingle Print Repositories
Library Storage
CAUL
Genoni, Paul
Towards a national print repository for Australia: Where from and where to?
title Towards a national print repository for Australia: Where from and where to?
title_full Towards a national print repository for Australia: Where from and where to?
title_fullStr Towards a national print repository for Australia: Where from and where to?
title_full_unstemmed Towards a national print repository for Australia: Where from and where to?
title_short Towards a national print repository for Australia: Where from and where to?
title_sort towards a national print repository for australia: where from and where to?
topic Print Repositories
Library Storage
CAUL
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/40636