• Recommended Formats for Acquisition This guidance explains the relationship of the Library's Recommended Formats Statement to 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.