1981: Conserving and Preserving Library Materials

 

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 27, 1981); Edited by Katherine Luther Henderson and William T. Henderson

A dozen years have passed since a landmark conference at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School brought to the profession's attention the serious problems of deterioration and opened up for the decade of the seventies many solutions which are now being implemented. In choosing the topic for the annual Allerton Park Institute, the faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign thought it appropriate, at this time, to assess the state-of-the-art and to help set the objectives for the 1980s in conserving and preserving library and archival materials.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

The Proceedings of the Allerton Park Institute have been digitized through the Open Content Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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  • Conservation: What we should do until the conservator and the twenty-first century arrive 
    Patterson, Robert H. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983)
    To paraphrase Dickens, these are the best and the worst of times. We certainly are confronted by a serious economic situation nationally and internationally, and the support libraries enjoyed only a few years ago (relatively ...
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  • Role of commercial services in conservation and preservation 
    Orr, James; Anthony, William T.; Kettell, Leedom; Werling, Anita (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983)
    I am here to represent library binders, a business that I have been in for over thirty-five years. Our industry is a small industry as industries go. It is about a 50-million-dollar industry which means that there are ...
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  • National preservation planning and regional cooperative conservation efforts 
    Morrow, Carolyn Clark (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983)
    I would like to present a chronology of national preservation planning, describe some notable developments in the area of regional cooperative conservation efforts, and suggest the types of activities that are feasible ...
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  • Preservation of paper based materials: Present and future research and developments in the paper industry 
    Lundeen, Gerald W. (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983)
    While we still have much to learn, and there is room for further progress, it is not only possible, but it is in the papermaker's own economic interests to produce permanent/durable paper. Such paper can reasonably be ...
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  • Decisions in conservation and preservation in the conservation laboratory 
    Kuflik, Louise (Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983)
    The decision to conserve has already been made when a book is brought to a conservation studio. It means that the material has been found to have some intrinsic or artifactual value. What to conserve is the decision of ...
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