Preserving Access for the Future

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Preserving Access for the Future

• OCLC Digital Collection Services Preservation
  Service Centers

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Digital collections lifecycle
Digitization,OCR, XML,CatalogingandMetadata
Assess user needs and collection conditions
Discovery / Access
Content Management, microfilm,and
digitalpreservation
Online access to your collection
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What you can do with OCLC

• Convert print, audio, video to digital in our
  Preservation Service Centers
• Organize digital collections with CONTENTdm
• Preserve digitized or born digital information in
  the Digital Archive
• Expose your digital collections thru WorldCat

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Preservation Service Centers
Lacey, WA
Winnipeg, MB
Bethlehem, PA
Dublin, OH
Richmond, VA
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Preserving Access for the Future

• Video digitization
• John Walko, Scene Savers
• Audio digitization
• George Blood, Safe Sound Archive
• Digital Preservation _at_ WSU
• Alan Cornish, Washington State University
• Digital Preservation Approaches _at_ OCLC
• Taylor Surface, OCLC

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Preserving Access for the Future

• OCLC Digital Collection Services Preservation
  Service Centers