Discusses role of Library of Congress (LC) in cooperative preservation microfilming activities in United States, noting relationship of LC to library community, sharing of technical expertise and procedural experience, the actual filming, and adequate bibliographic control for preservation microforms. Aspects of three-year Optical Disk Pilot…

The use of microforms in academic environments has become a general source of concern to all those involved with it. To some extent, the issues underlying the concerns of these groups can be summarized as a question: How can an academic library achieve full benefit from microform media? To develop information and to probe the difficulties of…