Tools for Practitioners

This series of publications provides specific guidance on a variety of topics related to planning and managing information resources and services.

This list includes selected reports. A chronological list provides a complete listing of all published reports.

pub121 Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists by Fred R. Byers. October 2003.

pub105 Usage and Usability Assessment: Library Practices and Concerns by Denise Troll Covey. January 2002.

pub95 Preservation Science Survey: An Overview of Recent Developments in Research on the Conservation of Selected Analog Library and Archival Materials by Henk J. Porck and René Teygeler. December 2000.

pub83 Preserving the Whole: A Two-Track Approach to Rescuing Social Science Data and Metadata by Ann Green, JoAnn Dionne, and Martin Dennis. June 1999.

pub72 Library Systems: Current Developments and Future Directions by Leigh Watson Healy. May 1998. $25

pub71 Digitizing Historical Pictorial Collections for the Internet by Stephen Ostrow. February 1998. $20

pub59 New Tools for Preservation by James M. Reilly, Douglas W. Nishimura, and Edward Zinn. November 1995. $10.00

pub54 Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling by John Van Bogart. June 1995. $10.00

pub46 Isoperms - An Environmental Management Tool by Donald Sebera. June 1994. $10.00

pub40 Directory of Information Sources On Scientific Research Related to the Preservation of Sound Recordings, Still And Moving Images, and Magnetic Tape by Margaret Child. September 1993. $10.00

pub37 Opto-Electronic Storage by Hartmut Weber. February 1993. $5.00

pub32 A Hybrid Systems Approach to Preservation of Printed Materials by Don Willis. November 1992. $10.00

pub10 Preservation and Access Technology. A Structured Glossary of Technical Terms by Stuart Lynn. August 1990. $5.00