Conservation: What we should do until the conservator and the twenty-first century arrive

Patterson, Robert H.

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Title

Conservation: What we should do until the conservator and the twenty-first century arrive

Author(s)

Patterson, Robert H.

Issue Date

1983

Keyword(s)

Library materials --Conservation and restoration --Congresses

Abstract

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 speaking) is diminishing. With the exception of a few fortunate institutions, largely in the Sun Belt, funds for staffing, new services and programs, and acquisitions are diminishing. Americans are historically optimistic, I believe, and we all look to things getting better. Perhaps they will, but many of us believe that they will get worse before that occurs. On the other hand, what I believe to be great advances and opportunities are taking place in preservation now and in the future. Conservation must be put in a broad perspective.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Allerton Park Institute (27th : 1981)

ISSN

0536-4604

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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