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Bee, Robert – Library Quarterly, 2008
The preservation of paper-based artifacts is an essential issue for collection management in academic libraries. In recent years, the library science profession has often favored reformatting through microfilm or digitization, assuming too quickly that information matters, whereas an artifact's medium does not. However, much recent humanities…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Microforms, Academic Libraries, Library Services

Leary, William H. – Microform Review, 1987
Discusses efforts of the National Archives and Records Administration to microfilm its holdings and to encourage other federal agencies to do the same. Reliability, adaptability, and costs of microforms are explored. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Archives, Microforms, Preservation, Public Agencies

Sullivan, Robert C. – Microform Review, 1988
Discusses the history of the microform collections at the Library of Congress (LC), highlighting the exchange of microfilmed newspapers between LC and the Biblioteca Nacional, Brazil. Recent developments in preservation microfilming, LC's acquisition of microforms, and the activities of the LC Preservation Microfilming Office are described. (3…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Library Collections, Microforms, Newspapers

Patrie, Milton I. – TechTrends, 1985
Suggests optimum environmental conditions (temperature, humidity), microfilm reader specifications, and handling, cleaning, repairing, and storing procedures to prevent the early deterioration of microfilm. (MBR)
Descriptors: Cleaning, Humidity, Methods, Microfilm

Veaner, Allen B. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1982
Remarks on the relative permanence and durability of three types of film in use in library microform reproduction (silver, diazo, and vesicular) and points out some technical and economic facts that govern the choice of microform materials for libraries. A 6-item reference list is included. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Library Collections, Library Equipment, Library Materials, Microforms

Baatz, Wilmer H. – Microform Review, 1988
Selective listing of material available in microform in the field of Afro-American studies is organized into two categories: papers, records and collections; and special areas of interest. Information is also provided about preservation microfilming at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. (two…
Descriptors: Black Studies, Indexes, Library Materials, Microforms

Salmon, Stephen R. – Microform Review, 1989
Describes how concern about the quality of microfilm being purchased by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service led to a project to bring together the various standards covering microfilm for permanent records, and to the publication in 1964 of Specifications for Library of Congress Microfilming. (two references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Guidelines, Library Standards, Microforms, Preservation

Wright, Conrad Edick – Microform Review, 1995
Discusses the Massachusetts Historical Society's various photostat and microfilming projects and describes how they grew out of the philosophy of the society's founder, the Reverend Jeremy Belknap. Topics include the preservation of the papers of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and collaboration with other repositories. (Author/JKP)
Descriptors: Cooperation, Microforms, Microreproduction, Preservation

Kruger, Betsy – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1988
Examines efforts of the Research Libraries Group to use RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network) to support cooperative and individual member library preservation activities. Areas covered include enhancements to make item-specific microform information available and efforts to code information on the physical condition of materials. (30…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographic Utilities, Library Materials, Library Networks

Robinson, Lawrence S. – Microform Review, 1984
Examines in detail approach of Library of Congress (LC) to selection and review of material for microfilming. Background of Preservation Microfilming Office, mission of program, selection of brittle material, role of LC custodial divisions, stack survey and inventory, cooperative activities, review process, gaps and missing material, and copyright…
Descriptors: Library Material Selection, Library Materials, Microforms, Microreproduction

Trader, Margaret P. – Microform Review, 1993
Discusses three methods for the preservation of the intellectual content of deteriorating paper materials--photocopying, microforms, and electronic digital technologies. Topics addressed include selection, preparation procedures, standards, bibliographic control, obsolescence of technologies, costs and user fees as possible deterrents to access to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Copyrights, Costs

Freunsch, Gail L. – Microform Review, 1986
Describes activities of Library of Congress Music Division's Music Preservation Microfilming Project originated in 1970. Current and upcoming filming projects are noted, including Brahms' original music manuscripts (holographs) and correspondence; Liszt holographs, correspondence, and first editions; piano-vocal scores and librettos of Victor…
Descriptors: Archives, Library Collections, Library Services, Microforms

Flores, Bess – Microform Review, 1989
Describes the development and current status of the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, which was established to set up a South Pacific microfilming service and to collect and distribute manuscripts, other unpublished materials, published items, and oral material of value related to the Pacific Islands. (31 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Clearinghouses, Cultural Background

Gwinn, Nancy E. – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1985
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…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, History, Information Storage, Institutional Cooperation

Dupont, Jerry; Dodson, Suzanne Cates – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1986
Two articles summarize qualities of medium being used in production of microforms: silver halide film, diazo film, and vesicular film. Highlights include policy of Law Library Microform Consortium, a nonprofit library cooperative and major supplier of legal materials on microfiche; archival storage and preservation; and recent recommendations.…
Descriptors: Information Storage, Library Acquisition, Library Collections, Microforms