Protecting your library's digital sources
Subtitle: the essential guide to planning and preservation
By: Miriam B. Kahn.
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Libraries -- Safety measures.; Archives -- Safety measures.; Library information networks -- Security measures.; Electronic records -- Conservation and restoration.; Emergency management -- Planning.; Computer security.; Data protection.; Electronic data processing -- Backup processing alternatives.
Description: Looks at the prevention of loss, the restoration of data or digital materials, and planning for long-term access to these materials. The last chapter provides 29 different checklists to help digital project managers and information technology specialists formulate a disaster response plan and consider a variety of issues in planning for the long life of their projects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-99) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preventing common causes of loss; title: Planning for the worst : loss of computer operations; title: Basic considerations in disaster response planning; title: Disaster response planning; title: Disaster response : when everything goes wrong; title: Disaster response planning for hardware and physical storage media; title: Protecting data for long-term retention; title: Decision-making for today and tomorrow; title: The future : organizations involved with the study of the preservation of electronic records; title: Checklists.