Meyer, L. (May 2009). Safeguarding collections at the dawn of the 21st Century: Describing roles & measuring contemporary preservation activities in ARL libraries. Association of Research Libraries. Retrieved from: http://www.arl.org/storage/documents/publications/safeguarding-collections.pdf

• Preservation is a core function of the research library and a key element of both the stewardship and access missions of research organizations.
• Digital age:  New Technologies
• ARL member libraries confront new challenges
• Transforming collections
• New preservation techniques
• New Services
• Digital library developments
• Doesn’t solve all of our preservation problems, but opens the doors to other potential problems, or new sets of standards
• Acquiring more and more digital content
• Creating digital access for patrons remotely and in house
• Look at the relationship between preservation and collection development
• The best preservation technique is providing materials with an environment that caters to that mediums needs.
• Print and media - maintaining temperature and RH (relative humidity)
• General concerns with the preservation of cultural resources means that the conservation of books, manuscripts, and other artifacts continues to be an important activity for libraries.
• Deacidification has enormous potential for preserving printed works that cannot be reformatted due to copyright concerns or have enduring value in their original format, and for preserving unique archival materials.
• Reformating techniques
• Microfilming, preservation photocopying, digitization, reformatting