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This paper discusses an Australian perspective of digital library economics. Introduction: definition and scope In 1998 the Digital Library Federation offered the following definition of 'digital libraries': "Digital libraries are organizations that provide the resources, including the specialized staff, to select, structure, offer intellectual access to, interpret, distribute, preserve the integrity of, and ensure the persistence over time of collections of digital works so that they are readily and economically available for use by a defined community or set of communities".(Council on Libr...

[Slide 1] PANDORA – past, present and future; or, national web archiving at in Australia. A talk given at the Seminar Kebangsaan Sumber Electronik Di Malaysia 2012, Bayview Beach Resort, Penang, Malaysia, 6 December 2012. [Slide 2] I am very pleased to be invited to Malaysia and this conference. My thanks especially to Mazmin Binti Mat Akhir for initiating and managing my participation. I have been invited to talk about the PANDORA Archive, which is the National Library of Australia’s national web archiving initiative. PANDORA was one of the world’s first web archiving programs, being s...