Ten years of Electronic Legal Deposit: The successes and the challenges
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2025-02-27
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Over the last 10 years since the change in Legislation permitted collecting digital content under legal deposit the six Legal Deposit Libraries of the UK have collectively built a seventh transnational digital library containing more than 15 million items plus the web archive. This collaboration represents the largest digital transformation in UK Libraries and was not without its challenges.
This presentation will show how we overcame some major hurdles and what lessons we will be carrying forward as we rebuild the shared digital infrastructure following the cyber-attack which has brought our digital Legal deposit operations to a standstill.
The presentation will discuss our relationships with publishers and how the success of the UK publishing industry, which contributes £11billion to the UK economy drives some of the political decisions and impacts the scale of our operation.
This presentation will highlight the challenges with the legislation and hopefully provide insight into the pitfalls to avoid if embarking on the journey of digital legal deposit. It will also elucidate what has worked well and how we have ensured the collaboration between six diverse libraries has been a success.
Note about the author:
Linda has worked for the six UK Legal Deposit Libraries since 2014. Working closely with colleagues across all disciplines and libraries, along with publishers and the UK Government she has paved the way for a smooth transition from print to digital legal deposit. Prior to that Linda held curatorial roles in STM and Business and Management
Studies at the British Library following a career in academic publishing. She
was educated at the University of Leeds where she obtained her PhD in
Microbiology (2000). She is a member of Cilip.
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