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T -- PRESERVATION MICROFILMING DUE 041095 POC Mary Smith, Contracting Officer/Daniel Hartinger, Contract Specialist, (301) 496-6546. The National Library of Medicine is seeking small business sources for the preservation microfilming of brittle library materials as a means of saving the information contained within them for future use. Preservation microfilming requires high standards for the quality of volume preparation, updating of bibliographic records, filming, and quality control. American National Standards Institute standards for the photographic processes used to produce an archival quality microfilm and other stringent technical requirements must be met. At the same time bibliographic control of the material must be carefully maintained to preserve access to it. Bibliographic control is achieved by careful page-by-page collation to identify all bibliographic and physical problems, preparation of targets and update of online records when volumes have been collated and later when the microfilm has been produced. NLM has written specifications and guidelines for targets and file maintenancehe project (0083)

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