Learn about the Library’s approach to managing digital file formats over time.
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 states 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.
