Keepers of the crumbling culture: What digital preservation can learn from library history

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  Marcum, Deanna ^a   Friedlander, Amy ^a  

^a Cncl on Lib and Info Resources ^*

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EID: 2642562570     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1045/may2003-friedlander     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Victor R. McCrary, personal communication, December 19, 2002; confirmed March 31, 2003.
2. Ainsworth Rand Spofford, A Book for All Readers Designed as an Aid to the Collection Use and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900) 121.
3. Ibid., 112, 138.
4. John Russell Young, Report of the Librarian of Congress, December 9, 1897 (Washington: GPO, 1897), 49-50.
5. Ibid., 50.
6. Barbara Buckner Higginbotham, "The 'Brittle Books Problem': A Turn-of-the-Century Perspective," Libraries and Culture 25, 4 (Fall 1990): 496-497. On the role of federal scientists, see ibid., 497; also George Martin Cunha and Dorothy Grant Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials A Manual and Bibliography on the Care, Repair and Restoration of Library Materials Vol. I, 2nd edition (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1971), Appendix R.
7. Barbara Buckner Higginbotham, "The 'Brittle Books Problem': A Turn-of-the-Century Perspective," Libraries and Culture 25, 4 (Fall 1990): 496-497. On the role of federal scientists, see ibid., 497; also George Martin Cunha and Dorothy Grant Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials A Manual and Bibliography on the Care, Repair and Restoration of Library Materials Vol. I, 2nd edition (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1971), Appendix R.
8. Barbara Buckner Higginbotham, "The 'Brittle Books Problem': A Turn-of-the-Century Perspective," Libraries and Culture 25, 4 (Fall 1990): 496-497. On the role of federal scientists, see ibid., 497; also George Martin Cunha and Dorothy Grant Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials A Manual and Bibliography on the Care, Repair and Restoration of Library Materials Vol. I, 2nd edition (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1971), Appendix R.
9. Rutherford D. Rogers, "Library Preservation: Its Scope, History, and Importance," in Jan Merrill-Oldham and Merrily Smith, eds., The Library Preservation Program: Models, Priorities Possibilities. Proceedings of a Conference, April 29, 1983, Washington, D.C (Resources and Technical Services Division, American Library Association with the cooperation of the Library of Congress, National Preservation Program), 9-10.
10. Ibid., 10; Susan G. Swartzburg, Preserving Library Materials: A Manual (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1995), 12-13.
11. Ibid., 10; Susan G. Swartzburg, Preserving Library Materials: A Manual (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1995), 12-13.
12. Rogers, "Library preservation," 11. Also see "Saving the Written Word; Library Awards Mass Deacidification Contract," The Library of Congress Information Bulletin, 61 (Jan. 2002):15; Center on the Materials of the Artist and Conservator, .
13. Rogers, "Library preservation," 11. Also see "Saving the Written Word; Library Awards Mass Deacidification Contract," The Library of Congress Information Bulletin, 61 (Jan. 2002):15; Center on the Materials of the Artist and Conservator, .
14. Irmi Wolfe, "Books in Peril: The Origins of Our Brittle Books Problem," Mississippi Libraries, 61, 1 (Spring 1997): 3-4; Cunha and Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials, 377; Rogers, "Library preservation," 8; Swartzburg, Preserving Library Materials 8-9, 13, 203-209. On the significance of permanence and durability as the dominant criteria, see Higginbotham, "The 'Brittle Books Problem'," 498-501.
15. Irmi Wolfe, "Books in Peril: The Origins of Our Brittle Books Problem," Mississippi Libraries, 61, 1 (Spring 1997): 3-4; Cunha and Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials, 377; Rogers, "Library preservation," 8; Swartzburg, Preserving Library Materials 8-9, 13, 203-209. On the significance of permanence and durability as the dominant criteria, see Higginbotham, "The 'Brittle Books Problem'," 498-501.
16. Irmi Wolfe, "Books in Peril: The Origins of Our Brittle Books Problem," Mississippi Libraries, 61, 1 (Spring 1997): 3-4; Cunha and Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials, 377; Rogers, "Library preservation," 8; Swartzburg, Preserving Library Materials 8-9, 13, 203-209. On the significance of permanence and durability as the dominant criteria, see Higginbotham, "The 'Brittle Books Problem'," 498-501.
17. Irmi Wolfe, "Books in Peril: The Origins of Our Brittle Books Problem," Mississippi Libraries, 61, 1 (Spring 1997): 3-4; Cunha and Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials, 377; Rogers, "Library preservation," 8; Swartzburg, Preserving Library Materials 8-9, 13, 203-209. On the significance of permanence and durability as the dominant criteria, see Higginbotham, "The 'Brittle Books Problem'," 498-501.
18. Irmi Wolfe, "Books in Peril: The Origins of Our Brittle Books Problem," Mississippi Libraries, 61, 1 (Spring 1997): 3-4; Cunha and Cunha, Conservation of Library Materials, 377; Rogers, "Library preservation," 8; Swartzburg, Preserving Library Materials 8-9, 13, 203-209. On the significance of permanence and durability as the dominant criteria, see Higginbotham, "The 'Brittle Books Problem'," 498-501.
19. Swartzburg, Preserving Library Materials, 15-16.
20. NEH Brittle Books Microfilming Project home page, .
21. This enumeration of preservation management functions is based on Rogers, "Library Preservation," 15.
22. The current state of preservation approaches to both traditional and digital materials is described in Stephen C. Nichols and Abby Smith, The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections (Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001). Available at .