National Libraries and Archives Special Interest Group (NatLA)

The National Libraries and Archives Special Interest Group (NatLA SIG) provides a forum specifically for National Libraries and National Archives to discuss their unique issues. Specifically, the purpose of this SIG is to:

• Provide a regular and effective forum for digital preservation knowledge exchange across the institutions, particularly relating to known issues and practical work being undertaken.

• Support collaboration between institutions wishing to address shared challenges

Membership of the Group is open to applications from institutions whose main role is the National Library and/or Archive of a particular nation. Where responsibilities are divided between more than one institution, applications will be considered on an individual basis.

In order to keep numbers manageable, each institution is invited to nominate one senior member of staff with responsibility for digital preservation as their primary contact. Additional staff or delegates may join meetings as appropriate, agreed in advance with the secretariat or chair. Guests may be invited on occasion for discussion around specific subjects.

The terms and conditions for this Special Interest Group can be found here.

If you are working on the preservation of digital content in a national library and/or archive and would like to join this group, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org 

Joining details and agenda will be circulated to group members a week before this meeting. Notes of meeting and recordings of presentations (where available) will be circulated to group members after the meeting.

DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.