Findings from the condition surveys conducted by the University of Kansas Libraries

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-126

  Baird, Brian J ^a   Krentz, Jana ^a   Schaffner, Brad ^a  

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EID: 0001538553     PISSN: 00100870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5860/crl.58.2.115     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. The University of Kansas Libraries consist of seven libraries with combined holdings of more than three million volumes. Although the Law and Medical Libraries work closely with the main library system, they are independent and were excluded from the surveys. The largest and oldest of these libraries - Watson Library - houses nearly one and a half million volumes. Due to the nature of their collections, the nearly 340,000 volumes in the university's archives, special collections, and the Kansas Collections, housed in Spencer Research Library, were not included in the condition surveys.
2. For the purpose of the KU Libraries, paper is classified as "brittle" when it is too weak to withstand a two double-fold test.
3. This is a quote from the Commission on Preservation and Access.
4. Gay Walker et al., "The Yale Survey: A Large-Scale Study of the Book Deterioration in the Yale University Library," College & Research Libraries 46 (Mar. 1985): 111-32.
5. Tina Chrzastowski et al., "Library Collection Deterioration: A Study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign," College & Research Libraries 50 (Sept. 1989): 577-84.
6. Randall Bond et al., "Preservation Study at the Syracuse University Library," College & Research Libraries 48 (Mar. 1987): 132-47.
7. For the condition surveys, the Preservation Task Force defined Northern Europe as Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany (West Germany), Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland.
8. Randall R. Butler, "'Here Today . . . Gone Tomorrow': A pH Investigation of Brigham Young University's 1987 Library Acquisitions," College & Research Libraries 51 (Nov. 1990): 539-51.