摘要：The National Library of Australia has been collecting Australian electronic publications in physical formats for some 15 years - the first floppy disks entered the collections in about 1983. There has been some active management of their acquisition, cataloguing, storage, and access over the years. A decision was made in the early 1990s to rationalise their storage by creating special runs for them, deferring further decisions on their long term preservation until later.Early in 1996 the Library decided to review the arrangements under which floppy disks and CD-ROMs are managed, especially with a view to long term accessibility. As part of this review the Library undertook a survey of its holdings of what we have variously called physical format, tangible, hand held, or portable electronic publications. This paper presents a report on the survey - its objectives, some of the approaches and assumptions behind it, the methodology used, and what we found.It should be noted that the survey focussed on floppy disks and CD-ROMs only in the Library's general Australian collections. Online networked publications were not included, and even among physical format publications a range of floppy disks and CD-ROMs were not covered by the survey as a result of a series of pragmatic decisions. These are described under Methodology in Section 4.
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