The Preservation of Knowledge

IN LIGHT OF RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL advances in the creation, storage, and dissemination of information, preservation managers must reevaluate the broad principles which have guided the field. These principles have tended to be oriented toward the treatment of individual items, yet the field has shifted more toward such largescale measures as reformatting and mass deacidification. With electronic formats of books on the increase, there is further impetus to reexamine preservation principles especially when one considers present electronic forms of communication.