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Public Consultation on the legal deposit of UK offline and online non-print publications
The Department for Culture Media and Sport has launched a consultation on the legal deposit of UK offline and online non-print publications which are available free of charge and without access restrictions. The Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 allows for publications to be deposited with Trinity College, Dublin (subject to provisions in Section 13), which is why we are seeking responses from interested parties in the Republic of Ireland as well as the UK.
Legal deposit is a legal requirement that a person or group submit copies of their printed publications to the British Library and, on their request, the other deposit libraries (the National Library of Scotland; the National Library of Wales; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the University Library, Cambridge; and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin) so that they can to be preserved for the benefit of future generations and become part of the national heritage.
This consultation sets out recommendations provided by the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel to the Secretary of State for Culture on the legal deposit of UK offline and online non-print publications.
The consultation will be of interest to professional and amateur writers who are the author of online publications that are available to the public free of charge and accessible without restriction.
Further information, including the consultation document (a Welsh language version will be available shortly), can be found on the DCMS website: http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/consultations/default.aspx.
Please respond before the closing date of 01 March 2010 using the questionnaire at Annex G of the document, to deposits.consultation@culture.gsi.gov.uk. If you do not have access to e mail, please respond to:
Frances Love Libraries and Archives Team, Culture Directorate 2-4 Cockspur Street London SW1Y 5DH
For enquiries about the consultation (handling) process only please contact the DCMS Public Engagement and Recognition Unit (PERU) at the above address or email using the form at www.culture.gov.uk/contact_us heading your communication “Proposal on the Collection and Preservation of UK Offline and Microform Publications and UK Online Publications, which are available free of charge and without access restrictions”.
Please forward this email to anyone you know who will be interested in this consultation.
Many thanks.
Department for Culture Media and Sport
2-4 Cockspur Street
London
SW1Y 5DH
http://www.culture.gov.uk/
Click below for information from the British Library about legal deposit.
Click here for all the information about the voluntary deposit scheme for offline titles.
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