1.The staff also provide public service in 15 of the Library's 21 reading rooms and maintain and preserve the Library's 113 million-plus general and special collections. It also processes and catalogs most special-format materials.
同时，工作人员还为国会图书馆21个阅览室中的15个提供公共服务，并且维护和保存国会图书馆的113万件普通馆藏和特色馆藏。还要对大多数特殊格式的资料进行处理和编目。

2.Steve Green, Head of the Digital Library Programme at the British Library said: "The task of collecting, preserving and providing long-term access to the nation's digital assets is in many ways a daunting and complex undertaking. The sheer amount of material being published digitally is challenging enough in itself, but the wide range of different formats - many of which will inevitably become obsolete - makes preservation and future accessibility far from straightforward.
大英图书馆数字图书馆项目负责人Steve Green表示：“收集、保存国家数字化资产并提供长期存取，这个任务任重而道远。将大量资源数字化出版已是极具挑战性，况且还有这么多不同的格式——其中大部分将不可避免地被淘汰掉——要好好保存下去，让后人也能存取，这确实不是件易事。

3.The British Library will this month host a major international conference to address threats to information created or held in digital formats. Over 250 experts, practioners and decision makers from 33 countries and four continents will assemble at the British Library, St Pancras, on 29-30 September for the Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPres 2008).
大英图书馆将于本月主办一个大型国际会议，以解决对以数字格式创建或保存的信息的威胁。来自33个国家和四大洲的250多位专家、业内人士以及决策者将聚集大英图书馆，参加9月29日-30日召开的第五届数字资源长期保存国际会议（iPres 2008）。

4.iPres is the world's longest-running series of international conferences dedicated to long-term preservation of digital material. Previously, iPres has been held by the National Library of Science, Beijing; Cornell University, New York; and the State and University Library, Goettingen, Germany.
数字资源长期保存国际会议（iPres）是数字资源长期保存领域的主流的国际性系列会议。此前，iPres已在北京国家科学图书馆、纽约康奈尔大学以及德国哥廷根大学成功举行过。