About the First Edition of ‘Handbook of Lithuanian Information and Documentation Standards’

Abstract

The rapidly increasing diversity of digital content formats and the possibility to preserve such content heightens the necessity of the interoperability of its identification, ascertaining its location and ensuring its access. All this can be realized only by applying standards, i.e., a specific type of documents, which create added value within the intellectual knowledge economy. The Lithuanian library community is not merely a passive consumer of standardization products and services but has a possibility set by law to be their active developer. In 2022, the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania published ‘Handbook of Lithuanian Information and Documentation Standards’ prepared by Dalia Jaskonienė, an aid for better understanding of the standardization of information science and documentation fields important for libraries. This publication must be seen as another important professional information source prepared by the Library’s standardization expert.