Examines the financial impracticability of publishing vast collections of historical and literary material in traditional book form and proposes microform publication as an alternative. (Author)

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…

This guide describes the holdings in the manuscript collections, the university archives, and the American Foreign Policy Center, all of which are located in Louisiana Tech University's Prescott Memorial Library. The guide is divided into three sections. The first section, "Manuscript Collections," presents descriptions of 197…

The intent of this project was to create a core bibliography in support of preservation of scholarly jewelry research, and to encourage the interest and involvement of jewelry historians, appraisers, professionals, collectors, and connoisseurs in preservation initiatives. The bibliography identifies a core of jewelry history books that are…

This guide describes history source materials available at Arizona State University (Tempe), as well as a selection of microforms located at other universities in Arizona and the Center for Research Libraries. Its purpose is to promote the use of sets and collections that, because of their publication in microformat, are relatively neglected. A…