Preserving digital news collection: overview at BERNAMA and UTUSAN MELAYU which have benefited the nation

Abstract

In recent years, technological development has had not only a profound impact on library collections but also challenged the librarians' role in preserving and maintaining digital collections. Leaving with no choice, news libraries have to digitalize the fast-growing amount of news collection. Speed and accuracy are much crucial in relations to the role of providing news on a daily basis to the users. As a result, the news is read and monitored by the nation via daily news. Thus it is important for the news collection to be processed and preserved where such news can be easily accessed by current and future generations in the realm of the country's development. In this paper we shall focus on the overview and comparison of digital activities at the Library & Information Centre (InfoLib), Bernama and Utusan Melayu Information Centre.