What we do
The Collection Management & Preservation Department provides strategic stewardship of University of Minnesota Libraries content to ensure continuing access for future generations of users. The unit employs cost-effective strategies for managing the life cycle of content and collections, including stabilizing physical materials to ensure usability, reformatting materials to ensure long-term access to their content, implementing preventative preservation practices throughout the Libraries, promoting preservation and providing educational opportunities for Libraries staff and users, coordinating the safe and timely transfer of materials to remote storage and other locations through collections moves, and managing and planning for optimal use of collections storage spaces.