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News from CILIP
Monday 17 July 2006
For immediate release (Please copy to online discussion lists)
Taking your first steps into the world of web archiving? Or simply interested in developing a greater understanding of the issues and how they might affect your library or information service?
New from Facet Publishing, Archiving Websites: A practical guide for information management professionals by Adrian Brown is the first book to offer practical guidance to information-management professionals seeking to implement web archiving programmes of their own. It is essential reading for those who need to collect and preserve specific elements of the web - from national domains or individual subject areas to an organisation's own website.
Drawing on the author's experience of managing The National Archives' web-archiving programme, together with lessons learned from other international initiatives, this book provides a comprehensive overview of current best practice, together with practical guidance for anyone seeking to establish a web-archiving programme. It assumes only a basic understanding of IT and web technologies, although it also offers much for more technically oriented readers.
Contents include the development of web archiving; selection; collection methods; quality assurance and cataloguing; preservation; delivery to users; legal issues; managing a web-archiving programme and future trends.
Written to address audiences from the whole spectrum of information-management sectors, this book is essential reading for three types of reader: policy-makers, who need to make decisions about establishing or developing an institutional web archiving programme; information-management professionals, who may be required to implement a web-archiving programme; and website owners and webmasters, who may be required to facilitate archiving of their own websites.
Contact: Mark O'Loughlin, Marketing Manager, Facet Publishing.
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Notes to Editors
Archiving Websites: A practical guide for information management professionals, Adrian Brown, is published by Facet Publishing (July 2006; 256pp; paperback; 1-85604-533-6; £39.95 or £31.96 to CILIP Members).
Adrian Brown is Head of Digital Preservation at The National Archives, where he is responsible for the long-term preservation of born-digital public records created by the UK government and courts. He is a member of the Digital Preservation Coalition and UK Web Archiving Consortium management boards, and a number of international standards committees.
Facet Publishing is one of the largest publishers worldwide in the field of library and information science. At the forefront of library and information development, Facet Publishing has a comprehensive list covering all the major areas of professional activity. See www.facetpublishing.co.uk/ for further information.
CILIP: the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. It forms a community of around 35,000 people engaged in library and information work, of whom around 22,000 are CILIP Members and around 13,000 are regular customers of CILIP Enterprises. CILIP members work in all sectors, including business and industry, science and technology, further and higher education, schools, local and central government, the health service, the voluntary sector, national and public libraries. For more information about CILIP, please go to www.cilip.org.uk.
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