How a small public library overcomes some financial, technical and legal obstacles in digitizing and preserving AV archives of local media houses in Serbia. Short presentation from the Future Library 2013 unconference.

1. So, your library wants to do
digital preservation?!
Bogdan Trifunović
Digital Projects Librarian
Digitization Centre
Public Library “Vladislav Petković Dis”
www.cacak-dis.rs
Future Library Unconference, Athens, 9-10 December 2013

2. Overview
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Digital Preservation
Audio-visual material
Financial, technical, legal obstacles
Small heritage institutions (GLAM)
Public library in Serbia experience

4. How to overcome the mess
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Existing resources
External resources
Outsourcing
Partnership (public-private) 

6. FINANCES

7. No money?
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Projects
Donations
Sponsorships
Partnerships: public-private
Our case: Partnership with the local media
houses, digitization of their audio-visual
material recorded on obsolete carriers

8. Who helped us
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National Bank of Serbia
Radio-Television of Serbia
Local media houses
IT companies
Other cultural institutions
Local authorities
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9. TECHNOLOGY

10. Metadata

12. LEGAL

13. Different laws act differently!

14. Point of view matters
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Archive – material
Museum – artifact
Library – content+meta
Gallery – exhibition piece
TV station – Use DVD
Law maker – No idea?
Tax payers – We’re paying for that?!

15. Do you want to hear a story?
A thriller about the library, an archive, and
one bankruptcy…

16. Laws playing a role in the story
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Law of Cultural Material (1994)
Law of Archival Material (1998)
Law of Culture (2009)
Law of Bankruptcy (2009)
Law of Library and Information (2011)
Law of Publication’s Deposit Copy (2011)

17. What do we suggest then
* And know your rights!

18. Thank you!
bogdan@cacak-dis.rs
Check our Digital Library at:
www.cacak-dis.rs/dig_bibl/
Future Library Unconference, Athens, 9-10 December 2013