Chapter 1. Introduction

Authors

  • Erin Baucom

Abstract

A digital preservation program is an essential piece of your organization’s institutional and cultural memory. Chapter 1 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 55, no. 6), “Planning and Implementing a Sustainable Digital Preservation Program,” discusses what digital preservation is and why it is critical that you start to plan and implement a sustainable digital archiving program now rather than waiting for some distant future.

Author Biography

Erin Baucom

Erin Baucom is an assistant professor and the digital archivist at the University of Montana. She is responsible for developing strategies, workflows, and policies for ingest, management, and preservation of born-digital materials acquired by the archives. She provides digital asset management instruction to the students, faculty, and staff of the university. She earned her master’s degree in library science with a concentration in archives and records management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016. She also holds a BA in history from Old Dominion University.

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Published

2019-08-13

Issue

Vol. 55 No. 6 (2019): August/September

Section

Chapters