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Library Preservation: The Approach of the National Museums of Canada.
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Pacey, Antony – Canadian Library Journal, 1990
Outlines the problems of the National Museums of Canada libraries that led to the decision to implement a preservation program and describes the program and its impact. Areas discussed include policy formation, disaster contingency planning, storage monitoring, collection cleaning, binding and restoration, rare book identification and…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Foreign Countries, Library Collections, Library Facilities
Preservation in Poverty and Plenty: Policy Issues for the 1990s.
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Hazen, Dan C. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1990
Discusses the growing emphasis on preservation in academic libraries and examines the assumptions underlying the prevalent approach of one-time reformatting using microforms. A model for preservation policy and planning based on needs assessment and prioritizing is presented, and alternatives to current practices are considered. (10 references)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cost Effectiveness, Financial Support, Higher Education
Scholarly Micropublishing, Preservation Microfilming, and the National Preservation Effort in the Last Two Decades of the Twentieth Century: History and Prognosis.
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Bourke, Thomas A. – Microform Review, 1990
Reviews recent trends in scholarly micropublishing and preservation microfilming and discusses prospects for the rest of the twentieth century. Areas discussed include the impact of economics and government policies, recent changes in the scholarly micropublishing industry, recent developments in bibliographic control, the national preservation…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Cost Effectiveness, Electronic Publishing, Federal Government