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New Tools for Preservation: Assessing Long-Term Environmental Effects on Library and Archives Collections

Authors
James M. Reilly; Douglas Nishimura; Edward Zinn
Publisher
Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology.
Place
Rochester, New York
ETC archive
ETC0729
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James M. Reilly; Douglas Nishimura; Edward Zinn. New Tools for Preservation: Assessing Long-Term Environmental Effects on Library and Archives Collections. Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology. 1995.

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