Modernization Policy
Modernization is a continuous process of adapting to the information environment and working collaboratively to ensure that LAC is effective and fulfills its mandate. This includes managing both digital and analogue materials that constitute Canada's continuing memory.
LAC's collaborative approach with external partners on a number of issues, including finding the most effective ways of preserving digital documents over time, and housing parts of the documentary heritage in the most relevant locations, will continue to foster an atmosphere for dialogue and a climate for discussion.
The Documentary Heritage Management Framework focuses on the three main functions of LAC's mandate: acquisition, preservation and resource discovery.
The framework also includes:
- Using an approach based on four guiding principles (significance, sufficiency, sustainability and society) to select acquisitions. These principles will help LAC consider whether it is the most suited to acquire the documentary heritage, or whether another institution is better placed to acquire it and/or to be its repository.
- Seeking the right balance between resources dedicated to the preservation of digital documents and analogue documents, and to ensure there is no digital memory gap. In this way, LAC will continue to work in both analogue and digital worlds.
- Working with other organizations and Canadians to make resource discovery more user-friendly. The term "resource discovery" includes description, discovery, access and services to the public.
In this way, the framework will define a manageable and results-driven approach for LAC to follow in the upcoming years.
Finally, LAC is conducting a number of pathfinder pilot projects, including rethinking newspapers in a digital age, approaching long-term loans in a more collaborative way and considering challenges and opportunities for Canada's military documentary heritage.
More information about modernization can be found on LAC's website.
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