Abstract

Corporate annual reports provide a snapshot of a company’s operations and financial status. Reviewing and comparing years of annual reports can provide a rich history of knowledge on a corporation. Preserving, storing, and digitizing Canadian annual reports has been a mission of the C.B. “Bud” Johnston Library in London, Ontario, Canada. In late 2019 when Western Libraries migrated to a new library services platform, Alma, there was a new opportunity to catalog and provide access to the digitized annual reports collection. This article describes a decade long plan to digitize the print collection by library staff and a subsequent project to provide online access to the digitized content. Included is a discussion of cataloging methods, staffing, training, inventory control, and hosting solutions.

摘要

公司年度报告提供公司运营和财务状况的快照。回顾和比较多年的年度报告可以提供有关公司的丰富知识历史。保存、存储和数字化加拿大年度报告一直是加拿大安大略省伦敦市 CB “Bud”约翰斯顿图书馆的一项使命。2019 年底，当西方图书馆迁移到新的图书馆服务平台 Alma 时，就有了一个新的机会来编目和提供对数字化年度报告集合的访问。本文介绍了图书馆工作人员将印刷馆藏数字化的长达十年的计划，以及随后提供对数字化内容的在线访问的项目。包括对编目方法、人员配备、培训、库存控制和托管解决方案的讨论。