5. Preservation Profiles


target the most important 25% of a universe of approximately 12,000 volumes to be preserved in a
subsequent project.

Project Budget

Identification (staff and online searching) $ 29,330
Selection by scholarly review panel 2,250
project management 4,000
travel to project meetings 2,000

Total project cost $ 37,580


5.7 MINNESOTA AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA


The University of Minnesota Libraries have participated in several recent consortial microfilming projects
under the aegis of the Research Libraries Group (RLG) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation
(CIC), preserving 17,000 volumes. The Libraries microfilmed 3,100 volumes in the first CIC cooperative
project and 3,000 volumes in the second project--all from the Libraries' collection of 19th century
European cultural history journals. The Libraries filmed 4,100 volumes in the first RLG Cooperative
Preservation Microfilming Project (CPMP) and 6,800 volumes in CPMP II--all from the Hess Collection
of Dime Novels. The Libraries' ongoing preservation operation provides for integrated preservation
selection from a range of options and treatments, including replacement, reformatting, phased
conservation through placement in protective storage or protective enclosures, rebinding, and in-house
conservation. The operation is supported by regular annual budgets. Criteria and procedures for
selection have been refined over many years with regular input from bibliographers, whose role in the
selection process has been systematized. The University Libraries follows preservation standards to
reproduce, on a need basis, materials that are seriously deteriorated and/or heavily used by
microfilming/preservation photocopying. The Libraries will complete a formal preservation needs
analysis during 1997 to assess collection condition, identify needs, and assign priorities.

The University of Minnesota Libraries also participated in the NAL/land grant universities microfilming
project in the early 1980s. This project filmed older Agricultural Experiment Station, Agricultural
Extension Service, and some academic department publications, including both monographs and serials.
Minnesota filmed Agricultural Experiment Station Annual Reports beginning with 1890 imprints (the
earliest publications) and Minnesota Farm and Home Service (later Minnesota Science) for the years
1934-1975. Technical Bulletins, Extension Bulletins, and Agricultural Experiment State Bulletins were
also filmed. The project filmed some esoteric publications, such as reports of the development and use of
shortwave transmitters to track animal movements.

The St. Paul Campus Central Library houses extensive collections in agriculture, biological sciences,
human ecology, natural resources, rural sociology, vocational education, and veterinary medicine. The
second largest repository of Minnesota agriculture-related publications is the Minnesota Historical
Society's (MHS) Research Center. MHS has an on-going mandate to preserve on microfilm publications
at risk and participates in the United States Newspaper Project sponsored by NEH. MHS has committed
to helping identify, locate, and provide materials that will be preserved in this project.

University of Minnesota USAIN Project Staff

Minnesota's project will be managed by JoAnn DeVries, Collections Coordinator for the Agriculture,
Biology, and Environmental Resources Group. Ms. DeVries will be responsible for the compilation of