Preservation Planning and Workflows for Digital Holdings at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

The goal of this practice-based work is to share experiences and findings with other digital preservation practitioners. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library Digital Preservation Pilot is a collaborative project involving the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Information Technology Services at University of Toronto Libraries, and the TALint internship program at the school's Faculty of Information. Guidance was also provided by the Digital Curation Institute at the University of Toronto. The purpose of the project was to evaluate the extent of born-digital content at risk in the Fisher's collections, develop a workflow for accessioning, and establish a baseline level of preservation on the content. The following is an overview of that process, results, challenges, and recommendations for next steps.