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Hungarian National Library Case Study

Preservation of manuscripts for the Hungarian National Library The Hungarian National Library was founded in 1802 by the Hungarian Count Ferenc Széchényi. Szécheny. Its collections consist of more than 2 million books, periodicals, manuscripts, documents, and images. Serving as a storehouse of knowledge, National Széchényi Library is an institution storing and making publicly available traditional (paper-based) and mod ern (electronic) library documents of the Hungarian cultural heritage.

CHALLENGE

Libraries carry an important responsibility to ensure valuable information lives on for decades and even cen turies. This can be a difficult task with challenges such digital obsolescence, multiple file formats, content du plication, both analogue and born digital information and resource constraints.