Legal Deposit and Preservation of Digital Materials in Various Countries

Legal deposit system is an essential tool for a national library to ensure the preservation and access to a nation's intellectual heritage over time. Substantial amounts of digital materials of national cultural value are already being published. There is a global trend towards extending legal deposit to cover digital materials in order to maintain comprehensive national archives. This paper gives a progress report of some countries around the world whose legal deposit laws have already updated or are under revision. Some strategies are suggested for the digital collection building of the Korean National Digital Library which will open in 2008.

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Vol.20 No.1

Legal Deposit and Preservation of Digital Materials in Various Countries

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Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management