Collecting Born Digital Archives at the Wellcome Library

The authors discuss plans for work with born digital archival material at the British Wellcome Library.
This library holds a collection of books, manuscripts, films and photographs on the history of medicine.

Society trusts libraries and archives to ensure that the report we read or the information we rely on for research will still be available when next we need it. The digital world presents new challenges of acquisition and life cycle management for libraries, archives and readers. This article looks at the first steps taken by the Wellcome Library to include born digital material into its collections. (...)

Read the full article. Language: English.