Volume 61 (2014), Issue 6

The permanent preservation of original written cultural heritageworks by archives, libraries and other memory institutions is atask which the institutions concerned are scarcely in a positionto accomplish. Ever since the late 1980s at least,...

An initiative has been set up in the state of Brandenburg whichis dedicated to improving the involvement of smaller culturalheritage institutions in the presentation of the digital heritage.It is based on four main pillars. The first is the...

This paper uses theoretical expositions and practical examplesto demonstrate how librarians and specialist museum staff arenowadays called upon not only to keep »ready« knowledge andoriginals in their holdings, but also to contribute their...