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Preservation Services
The Preservation Services Programme strives to ensure the long-term availability and accessibility of South African knowledge resources through preservation of audio-visual, broadcast and electronic media.
National libraries are responsible for safeguarding those records
that society has considered necessary to create and keep. The task of
the Preservation Services Programme is to ensure that the National
Library maintains and develops world class in-house preservation policy
and practices, and a national preservation function capable of
providing preservation and conservation services on a national
basis.
The preservation services of the National Library of South Africa seek
to preserve its collections for posterity using conservation techniques
that include the reformatting of materials. Documents too fragile to be
photocopied are reformatted by the National Library's reprographic
services onto photographic film, microfilm, microfiche or in digital
format.