Introduction: The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

摘要

This special issue of Library Trends is comprised of sixteen articles that tell fascinating stories about the ground-breaking efforts of numerous partners within the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP). Since its inception in 2004, NDIIPP has grown from an experimental program into a true partnership of concerned organizations working together to sustain access to digital information that is critical to scholarship and cultural heritage nationwide.1 The seeds for NDIIPP were initially sown in a report issued in July 2000 by the National Research Council titled LC21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress. The report, which was commissioned by the Library and Congress in 1998, was an on-site study of the Library's technology practices, an initiative conducted by a committee of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council.