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SPEC Kit 202: Electronic Journals: Issues & Trends (August 1994)

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SPEC Kit 201: Electronic Journals: Policies & Procedures (August 1994)

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Preservation Planning Program Resource Guides

1993 • Print copies are available for $15/each or $80/set plus shipping & handling.

Each of the seven resource guides in this set provide comprehensive, easy-to-use information relating to a major component of effective preservation programs. These guides offer a conceptual framework to facilitate preservation decision-making within a specific area and help libraries to assess current practices. Bibliographies of additional preservation literature are included in each issue.

  • Collections Conservation
    Robert DeCandido • ISBN 0-918006-67-8 • 134pp.
  • Collection Maintenance and Improvement
    Sherry Byrne • ISBN 0-918006-66-X • 98pp.
  • Disaster Preparedness
    Constance Brooks • ISBN 0-918006-65-1 • 184pp.
  • Managing a Library Binding Program
    Jan Merrill-Oldham • ISBN 0-918006-68-6 • 159pp.
  • Options for Replacing and Reformatting Deteriorated Materials
    Jennifer Banks • ISBN 0-918006-65-1 • 51pp.
  • Organizing Preservation Activities
    Michele Cloonan • ISBN 0-918006-66-X • 98pp.
  • Staff Training and User Awareness in Preservation Management
    Wesley Boomgaarden • ISBN 0-918006-64-3 • 89 pp.
 
 

Preservation Planning Program: An Assisted Self-Study Manual for Libraries

Pamela Darling; revised by Jan Merrill-Oldham and Jutta Reed-Scott • 1993 • ISBN 0-918006-69-4 • 138pp.

This revised edition provides a well-tested methodology for comprehensive preservation planning and aims to assist libraries with their efforts to establish or augment local preservation programs. The manual brings together a variety of checklists, outlines, and samples to help guide program development.

Print copies are available for $45.00 plus shipping & handling.

 
 

Collection Conservation Treatment: A Resource Manual for Program Development and Conservation Technician Training

Compiled by Maralyn Jones • 1993 • ISBN 0-615-00357-5 • 452 pp.

The manual includes instructions for more than 100 collection conservation treatments (many illustrated); floor plans and furnishing/equipment lists; flow charts and decision trees; a bibliography of core readings on collection conservation; and the final report from "Training the Trainers: A Conference on Training in Collection Conservation."

Print copies are available for $45.00 plus shipping & handling.

 
 

Preservation Program Models: A Study Project and Report

Jan Merrill-Oldham, Carolyn Clark Morrow, and Mark Roosa • 1991 • ISBN 0-918006-20-1 • 54pp.

This publication discusses 10 components of a comprehensive preservation program and describes four levels of program maturity, with benchmarks for personnel, production, and budgets.

Print copies are available for purchase for $45.00 plus shipping & handling.

 
 

Research Libraries' Enduring Responsibility for Preservation

Collectively ARL libraries hold more than 470 million print volumes. These works are complemented by many digital works and special collections. Preservation has long been an area of significant activity both for ARL and its member libraries. In 2007, the ARL Task Force on the Future of Preservation in Research Libraries convened a group of preservation experts and association leaders who issued a set of recommendations for ARL, associations sharing ARL’s preservation concerns, and ARL member libraries. This statement expresses the emphasis the task force sees for research libraries and their preservation mission: “For the scholars and researchers we serve to have enduring access to scholarship in all formats, ARL members libraries must invest in maintaining strong local and cooperative preservation programs.”

pdf preservation-responsibility-24july07.pdf

 
     

Membership Meeting 2006 (Fall): Cooperative Collection Management Survey

Proceedings of the 149th ARL Membership Meeting, October 2006.

pdf mm06fall-nilges.pdf

 
 
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