Digital Formats

• Digital Acquisitions File Formats

  This guidance details how the Library determines policy and standards related to file formats, and how these decisions impact collection development, acquisition, and preservation planning.
• Bit Level Preservation and Long Term Usability

  This guidance expresses to what extent the Library preserves all digital collections material and what factors impact future renderability of digital content.
• Maintenance of Original Formats

  This guidance clarifies the Library's approach to maintaining digital collections file formats upon ingest as received.
• Digital Surrogate Creation and Management

  This guidance outlines the procedures and guidelines governing the creation of digital surrogates of the Library's analog collections.
• Inventorying and Tracking Digital Formats In Use

  This guidance explains the Library's approach and responsibility to monitor the inventory of file formats in its digital collections.