Three articles on preservation present a theoretical framework for making preservation selection decisions by Atkinson, comments on Atkinson's concepts and possible mechanisms for identifying collections for top priority in microfilming by Child, and results of a Research Libraries Group study of the costs of preservation microfilming by McClung .…

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…

The Utah Newspaper Project was completed in two phases: the planning phase which sponsored a conference and compiled a preliminary checklist from secondary sources; and the bibliographic control phase which inventoried in-state and out-of-state newspaper holdings. The public provided many missing issues. (Author/EM)