Dear all,
The Law Library at the University of New South Wales is beginning to
address the issue of preserving slowly deteriorating law materials.
The major problem here is brittle paper. The question is - in what format
should materials be preserved? The options are (with apologies to the
American Library Association) as follows:
1. replacement via a republished version (if available)
2. the purchase of a microform edition
3. the creation of a microform version
4. photocopying the item and binding the photocopy
5. no treatment (planned deterioration)
6. the withdrawal of the item from the collection (no replacement)
7. the creation of new copies in other formats (CD-Rom, computer file)
If anyone has a preservation program in place, I would be very interested
to know which method of replacement has been chosen.
Regards,
Jackie Patrick
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<> Jackie Patrick (J.Patrick@unsw.edu.au) <>
<> Law Librarian, University of New South Wales <>
<> P.O. Box 1, Kensington, 2033 Australia <>
<> Phone: (02) 697 3769 Fax: (02) 662 4622 <>
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