Abstract:

In nowadays, libraries, museums and other public cultural institutions are all experiencing cooperation actively between each other. From the perspective of cooperation, such memory institutions collaboration mode are various from building alliance, aligning to integration. From the perspective of long-term preservation, such memory institutions have explored several kinds of collaboration mode, such as “centralized management & centralized storage”,“centralized management & distributed storage”,“scatter storage & centralized integration”.What these measures show is characteristics of digital convergence, which include: libraries have taken the leading role; subjects of convergence are variety; objects of convergence are of parallel; content of convergence are assimilation; forms of convergence are various.

Key words: Memory institutions, 　Digital resource,   , Cooperation preservation