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Developing a method for assessing preservation needs in libraries

Paul Eden, Nancy Bell, Naomi Dungworth, Graham Matthews

Library Management

ISSN: 0143-5124

Article publication date: 1 February 1999

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Abstract

Describes the development and testing of a standard assessment method for the preservation needs of paper‐based and photographic materials (including microforms) in libraries, which will facilitate an assessment of national preservation needs and priorities. After outlining how the research was carried out, it briefly describes the assessment method which was finally developed; explains why a sample‐based approach was adopted and how libraries should choose their samples; discusses the core preservation management issues identified during the earlier part of the research and shows how a set of questions relating to these issues was developed for inclusion in the method.

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Eden, P., Bell, N., Dungworth, N. and Matthews, G. (1999), "Developing a method for assessing preservation needs in libraries", Library Management, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 27-34. https://doi.org/10.1108/01435129910248650

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MCB UP Ltd

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