LIBER 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - Statsbiblioteket

encourage readers to use this new service.
After almost two years, there is still not a
very large public (about 80 visits a month),
but it exists here and now, and gives us
feedback.
Beyond traditional researchers, who may
search and browse Web archives content
for scientific, academic or even personal
purposes, “Web researchers”, studying the
media itself, have to face quantity, temporality
and time consistency issues. They also
have to deal with gaps and noise at a scale
of which the live Web only gives a small
sample. But because the Web has many
authors, many Web archives users and
usages are still unknown.
This paper will discuss:
- Web archives as a new and challenging
collection for the library end user,
- BnF marketing and service strategies to
introduce and promote the web archives,
- current usage surveys and counts, and
lessons learnt and to share,
- plans for future developments.
sara aubry is a digital curator and a
computer analyst. She has been working
at the National Libray of France (BnF) since
2002. She is part of the project team which
introduced web archiving into the Library
missions. She also ran the “Access to Web
Archives” project.
Sara has a master degree in Languages,
Civilizations and Computer Science. She
previously taught information sciences at the
University of Caen and was between 1998
and 2009 the moderator of biblio-fr, the
main french mailing list for librarians and
information science professionals, which
had about 18,000 subscribers.
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