Legal deposit libraries, the national and academic institutions who systematically preserve our written cultural record, have recently been mandated with expanding their collection practices to include digitised and born-digital materials. The regulations that govern electronic legal deposit often also prescribe how these materials can be accessed. Although a growing international activity, there has been little consideration of the impact of e-legal deposit on the 21st Century library, or on its present or future users.

This edited collection is a timely opportunity to bring together international authorities who are placed to explore the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit. It uniquely provides a thorough overview of this worldwide issue at an important juncture in the history of library collections in our changing information landscape, drawing on evidence gathered from real-world case studies produced in collaboration with leading libraries, researchers and practitioners (Biblioteca Nacional de México, Bodleian Libraries, British Library, National Archives of Zimbabwe, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Sweden). Chapters consider the viewpoint of a variety of stakeholders, including library users, researchers, and publishers, and provide overviews of the complex digital preservation and access issues that surround e-legal deposit materials, such as web archives and interactive media.

The book will be essential reading for practitioners and researchers in national and research libraries, those developing digital library infrastructures, and potential users of these collections, but also those interested in the long-term implications of how our digital collections are conceived, regulated and used. Electronic legal deposit is shaping our digital library collections, but also their future use, and this volume provides a rigorous account of its implementation and impact.

Table of Contents
List of Figures List of Tables Contributors Foreword — Bethany Nowviskie
Introduction — Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras
1 UK Non-Print Legal Deposit: From Regulations to Review — Linda Arnold-Stratford and Richard Ovenden
2 The Influence of Legal Deposit Legislation on the Digital Collections of the National Library of Scotland — Paul Cunnea, Gill Hamilton, Graeme Hawley and Fred Saunderson
3 E-legal deposit at the Biblioteca Nacional de México (National Library of Mexico) — Isabel Galina Russell, Jo Ana Morfin, Ana Yuri Ramírez-Molina
4 Bibliographic control in Zimbabwe: the conundrum of legal deposit in the age of digital technologies — Collence. T. Chisita, Blessing Chiparausha and Danmore Maboreke
5 Electronic Legal Deposit in Sweden: The Evolution of Digital Publications and Legislative Systems — Eva Lis-Green and Göran Konstenius
6 Publishers, Legal Deposit and the Changing Publishing Environment — Adrienne Muir
7 Making History: Digital Preservation and Electronic Legal Deposit in the Second Quarter of the Twenty-First Century — William Kilbride
8 Giving with one click, taking with the other: electronic legal deposit, web archives and researcher access — Jane Winters
9 Follow the Users: Assessing UK Non-Print Legal Deposit Within the Academic Discovery Environment — Linda Berube and Frankie Wilson
10 ‘An Ark to Save Learning from Deluge’? Reconceptualising Legal Deposit after the Digital Turn — Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras