1. Keeping print alive… … or ‘What to do when digital becomes default’
Caroline Brazier
Associate Director, Operations and Services
British Library
‘The Universal Repository Library and guarantees for the sustainability of the digital copy’.
Kuopio, Finland
29-30 October 2009

2. Serving the Google Generation
We’re all the Google Generation now.
Physical to digital balance is shifting for many library services.
What does this mean for our legacy physical collections?

3. Is print really dying? Increase in all forms of ‘publishing’.
Change in demand for traditional library services.
Strategies for digital library services must include a vision for physical legacy collections.

4. Four case studies from the British Library
United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR)
British Library Newspaper strategy
Book Digitisation
Digital scholarship

5. Case Study 1: UKRR
How to make a few print collections work for the many
Coordinated national solution for storage and preservation
Developing sustainable business models

6. Case Study 2: Newspaper strategy
750 million pages
State-of-the-art storage facility
Digital access in partnership with the newspaper industry and commercial service providers

7. Case Study 3: Book Digitisation
Rising expectations
UKRR for research monographs?
Exploit multiple channels for access and visibility

8. Case Study 4: Digital scholarship
Unique, rare, precious, iconic
Can be more ‘alive’ through digital access services
Virtual reunification and interpretation create new knowledge

9. Key messages
We must make physical and digital collections work together
We must not base decisions on emotive response to physical objects
We must have a new vision
We will need large scale and coordinated solutions

10. Key messages
We must move faster to transition from physical to digital
We must be smart with business models
We’ll need to work in new ways with publishers and rights holders
We must keep our solutions under constant review. 5 years is a long time in libraries

11. Conclusion
The best way to keep print ‘alive’ is not only to manage it for preservation in its current form, but to transform it.
We must give it a digital future that will excite and inspire future generations of library users.

12. Thank you for listening
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