Traces developments in cooperative preservation in microfilming projects from 1930s to mid-1980s. Participation by the Library of Congress, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Council on Library Resources, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Theological Library Association, Research Libraries Group, and…

Describes experiences of Genealogical Library of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in using micrographics technology to preserve records of permanent value from throughout the world. Highlights include selecting and filming records processing and sorting film, cataloging and using microforms, and what the future holds. Three sources are…

Surveys the United Nations microform program's history, its current filming projects, and its future plans. Established originally to preserve UN documents for archival purposes, it has expanded to public distribution and dissemination of significant UN documents. (Author)

Since 1950, the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. has produced what is currently known as the eHRAF Collection of Ethnography. This article explores the reasons why it was created and describes the structure of this complex collection of ethnographic works. Over time, this resource has been produced in four different formats: paper slips,…

Describes project undertaken to improve bibliographic access to individual works contained in "Landmarks" sets published by Readex Microprint Corporation. Highlights include reasons for project, cataloging, profile-matching, identification of subject content, in-analytic records, cost per title, project value, rare documents, scholars'…