From The British Library:
Today we publish Enabling access for everyone, a new document that sets out the British Library’s strategy for contemporary published content for the period 2020-2023.
Legal Deposit – the regulations that enable the Library collect a copy of every UK print and digital publication – remains the foundation of our collection-building activity. This content strategy focuses on the active collecting we do above and beyond Legal Deposit, in relation to contemporary published content. Heritage Acquisitions are governed separately, by our Heritage Acquisitions Policy.
The content strategy published today sets out how we will continue to build the national collection of contemporary published content, which we define as printed and digital content published from 1945 onwards.
Our priority is to provide access to content using the most cost effective means to help everyone access the information they need, now and in the future.
The strategy determines:
- What contemporary published content we collect or connect to, why and for whom.
- How that content is acquired and stored or how it is linked to.
- How that content is made available to everyone, in the short and long term.
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