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Peer reviewedLynch, Clifford A.; Brownrigg, Edwin B. – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Digital technologies should be considered a method of preservation for library materials. Current conservation strategies of restoration, deacidification, and microfilming are expensive, and they limit access. Digitization offers improved access while preserving materials and reflects a change in the library role from depository of printed…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Costs, Electronic Publishing, Information Dissemination
Peer reviewedGwinn, Nancy E. – College and Research Libraries, 1989
Describes ways in which collection development at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries has been affected by the libraries' position within a museum context. The discussion covers the adoption by the libraries of a nomenclature that applies to management of museum objects collections and their capitalization on allied interests in such areas as…
Descriptors: History, Library Collection Development, Library Role, Museums
