Word: microfilms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Microfilming--the principal method for preserving deteriorated books--is very expensive ($50 per volume), so national library conferences are working to cut costs by sharing microfilms and developing cheaper methods of preservation. Even the government has jumped on the bandwagon, giving $6 million each year to libraries to microfilm unique materials...
Seeking help to continue efforts to preserve millions of rotting books in the University library system, Harvard has asked the federal Department of Education for a $389,000 grant to microfilm books and periodicals...
...addition to a general request for preservation of unique materials in the University library system, the proposal also includes requests from specific Harvard libraries. Among the more unusual requests: Langdell Library at the Law School wants $25,000 to microfilm the official law gazettes of Latin-American countries which date back to the 1800s, and the Harvard Archives in Pusey Library needs $100 to microfilm Harvard mathematical theses of the 18th century...
...University employs a full-time staff, led by Doris Frietag, book conservator in the Harvard University library, for just the cleaning and repairing of old books. Harvard has received about $1 million in government grants over the last four years to microfilm endangered material, and to date more than 10 million deteriorating pages have been preserved on film. And in the University Archives, the process has been used to preserve more than 250,000 photographs...
...chill December night in 1948, Whittaker Chambers led two investigators from the House Committee on Un-American Activities into a pumpkin patch on his Maryland farm. From inside a hollowed-out pumpkin he produced several rolls of microfilm: copies of secret Government documents that, he claimed, had been passed to him in the 1930s by a State Department official named Alger Hiss, when both men were members of a Soviet espionage ring...