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The future of the past
Buying and contracting for resources and services : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians / Rick Anderson
Preservation
Copyright and cultural institutions
Managing electronic reserves
Current issues resource builder
Digital library programs for libraries and archives
Library space planning
Library material costs and access to information
Starting a Digitization Center
Managing preservation for libraries and archives
A reader in preservation and conservation
Tower
Queers online
The library disaster preparedness handbook
A Splendor of Letters
ARL Statistics 2006-2007
Libraries and archives
Button art
Book repair
Exceptional free library resource materials
Free publications from U.S. government agencies
Preserving local writers, genealogy, photographs, newspapers, and related materials
Disaster response and planning for libraries
Nonfiction collection guidelines for smaller libraries
Budgeting for information access
Copyright in academic libraries in digital environment
The case for books
The preservation management handbook
A library, media, and archival preservation handbook
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