With the Internet having facilitated an explosion of digital content, libraries have worked hard to adapt their practices to deal with virtual documents.

IFLA is already involved in the UNESCO Persist programme, but there is still much to lean about how to do it. Identifying what is necessary in order to develop a meaningful long-term digital preservation approach.

The following slides are available from the meeting.

Ingrid Parent: UNESCO PERSIST – The Shared Challenge of Digital Preservation (pdf)