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Slow Fires Still Burn: Results Of A Preservation Assessment Of Libraries In L’Viv, Ukraine, And Sofia, Bulgaria, Brian J. Baird, Bradley L. Schaffner
Slow Fires Still Burn: Results Of A Preservation Assessment Of Libraries In L’Viv, Ukraine, And Sofia, Bulgaria, Brian J. Baird, Bradley L. Schaffner
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East Central European libraries face a serious threat of the potential disintegration of the vast majority of Slavic publications printed in the twentieth century. This loss will come as result of the combination of inferior materials used to produce most twentieth-century Slavic publications and inadequate facilities to house these collections. In an effort to gain a better understanding of the condition of Slavic publications, over the past two years, the authors have conducted collection condition surveys and reviewed the preservation operations of three major academic libraries in L’viv, Ukraine, and Sofia, Bulgaria. This paper presents the results of these surveys.
Electronic Resources: A Wolf In Sheep’S Clothing?, Bradley L. Schaffner
Electronic Resources: A Wolf In Sheep’S Clothing?, Bradley L. Schaffner
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This article examines the impact of electronic technology on libraries and scholarship. It focuses on some of the challenges of using electronic resources in research libraries, which include the cost of acquiring electronic formats and the effect that such expenditures have on other library services and collection development practices. The article also explores how electronic resources have changed the way students and scholars conduct research. The goal of this essay is not to criticize or condemn electronic formats but, rather, to illustrate that electronic technology is simply one tool, among others, for the dissemination of information. As such, electronic resources …