Digital resource stewardship is a critical issue for academic libraries as both digitized and born digital content proliferate. Long-term access to digital materials requires continuous consideration as storage format, retrieval, and playback technologies are subject to rapid change. Preservation of digital content requires planning and a commitment to maintaining usability once the materials are created. Local preservation begins with high quality scanning and the creation of preservation level copies of digital objects. From master format files staff derive access level copies which are stored locally and that provide fast web viewing for users. The Digital Library creates descriptive Dublin Core metadata for the access copies and adds additional administrative and structural metadata to the archival masters to be preserved in the Florida Digital Archive, or FDA.The Florida Digital Archive is a shared repository for the eleven public university libraries of the State University System. The FDA uses DAITSS, an open source preservation repository software developed by the Florida Center for Library Automation.  The FDA provides a long-term preservation strategy guaranteeing future format migration and an access plan to retrieve archival copies for local use if needed.