From: Digital Archiving Section - xx@nla.gov.au
Date: 31st July 2008 11:04:54 AM
Dear Sir/Madam
Request for permission to archive AUFORN.COM (website) "Permission Granted 31st July 2008"
The National Library of Australia aims to build a comprehensive collection of Australian publications to ensure that Australians have access to their documentary heritage now and in the future. The Library has traditionally collected items in print, but it is also committed to preserving electronic publications of lasting cultural value.
PANDORA, Australia’s Web Archive, was set up by the Library in 1996 to enable the archiving and provision of long-term access to online Australian publications. Since then we have been identifying online publications and archiving those that we consider have national significance. Additional information about PANDORA can be found on the Library's server at: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/index.html
We would like to include AUFORN.COM (website) in the PANDORA Archive grant us a licence under the Copyright Act 1968, to copy your publication into the Archive and to provide public online access to it via the Internet. This means that you would grant the Library permission to retain your publication in the Archive and to provide public access to it in perpetuity.
We would like to re-archive your publication periodically to record significant additions and changes.
There are some benefits to you as a publisher in having your publication archived by the Library. The Library will take the necessary preservation action to keep your publication accessible as hardware and software changes over time. The Library will catalogue your publication and add the record to the National Bibliographic Database (a database of catalogue records shared by over 1,100 Australian libraries), as well as to our own online catalogue.
This will increase awareness of your publication among researchers using libraries.
Yours sincerely
Chris
Web Archiving
National Library of Australia