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Consortial actions and collaborative achievements : RLG's preservation program / Robin L. Dale -- Funding for library preservation : endowments as income streams / Whitney Pape, Eric C. Shoaf -- Library storage as a preservation strategy / Catherine Murray-Rust -- Preserving electronic government information : what role does policy play? / M. Elizabeth Cowell -- Fire recovery and preservation of collections at the Russian Academy of Sciences library / Valerii P. Leonov, Irina M. Belayaeva, Julia P. Nyuksha -- Partner library programs : the colorado programs / Nancy M. Bolt, Lisa Cole -- OCLC's digital preservation program for the next generation library / Meg Bellinger, Pam Kircher, Taylor Surface, Leah Houser -- The preservation of moving images / Karen F. Gracy, Michèle Valerie Cloonan -- Sound preservation : from analog to digital / Michael Seadle.

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