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Drawing
on historical texts, this accessible volume provides a broad understanding of
preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. Cloonan offers
students and professionals an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring
value, and authenticity of information preservation. Each section includes historical
works that form the basis of contemporary thinking and practices, readings from
a variety of fields that are primarily concerned with the preservation of
cultural heritage, and hard to find publications that shed new light on how to
approach contemporary problems. The author's selections and insightful
commentary on each comprise a truly global and current view of preservation.
