Digitisation in UK libraries and archives: is a national strategy needed?

In August 2004, the Joint Information Systems Committee and the Consortium of Research Libraries Digital Content Creation & Curation Task Force issued an invitation to tender for a study of the current provision of digitised collections for researchers in the UK higher education sector. The objectives of this study included identifying what digitised content exists, user needs and demand, UK research library digitisation activities and plans, funding sources and models and standards. The work also included consideration of the need for a national strategy for digitisation and recommendations for action.