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•Ordering
•Newsletters
•Guides and Manuals    
•Symposium Proceedings
•Reports
• Others' Publications
•User Services

Ordering Print Publications

Many RLG publications are now available on the Web; just click on the publication's title.

There is an online form to order any print publication listed below. If you have questions about ordering, send e-mail to RLG's Distribution Services Center at dsc@notes.rlg.org or by fax (650.964.0943, "attn. DSC").

For all other topics, e-mail the RLG Information Center (ric@notes.rlg.org); fax them (650.964.0943, "attn. RIC"); or phone 800-537-7546 (North America).

Shipping and Handling

A standard shipping/handling charge is made for any publication not listed as "no charge." In the US, this charge is $9.00 for the first item in a shipment plus $2 each for additional items in the same shipment. Internationally, the charge is $29 for the first item and $8 for additional items in the same shipment. This charge is additional to any base price listed for the title.

Newsletters from RLG

NewsScan Daily — A lively summary of information technology news sponsored by RLG, read internationally.

ShelfLife — A weekly executive news summary for information professionals worldwide that provides context for RLG's major initiatives and celebrates the power of knowledge to grow, to live, and to last.

RLG DigiNews — A bimonthly electronic newsletter conceived by the members of RLG's preservation community, read everywhere in the world by those concerned with issues surrounding digital materials in research collections. Provides filtered guidance and pointers to projects, publications, and events relevant to evolving practices in image conversion and digital archiving.

RLG Focus — A bimonthly newsletter for users and others interested in RLG's computer-based offerings; covers new and expanded online resources, upcoming new services, enhancements to current interfaces and software, tips on their use, uses in research collections around the world, and surveys of the information landscape.

RLG News, a semiannual four-color news-magazine-cum-annual-report. Issued in print twice a year; at present, only one or two articles in each issue are featured on the Web. subscribe (no charge) (postal address required).

Guides and Manuals

Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging
2000; Only offered on the Web.
Published jointly by RLG and the Digital Library Federation, a Web-based reference created by experts in the art and science of digital imaging of visual resources (original photographs, prints, drawings, maps, etc.). Designed to serve museums, archives, and research libraries that are turning to digital conversion to provide greater access to their collections, these guides fill a gap in the literature for serious digital imaging projects, providing the kind of concrete advice for digitizing visual resources that other publications have provided for text and text with images.

Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives: $80
2000; ISBN: 0-9700225-0-6.
Winner of the Society of American Archivists' 2001 Waldo Leland Gifford Award
Softbound, 189-page, illustrated guide and reference work by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger with contributions by others, published by RLG. This book, which includes the contributions of more than 50 experts, is directed to libraries and archives that choose to retrospectively convert cultural resources to digital image form. Integrating cultural objectives with practical digital applications, it offers vital assistance in a complex arena. From decision-making, to sound practices, to turning projects into sustainable digital programs, this new publication provides a wealth of balanced information and counsel.

Cataloging Guidelines for Creating Chinese Rare Book Records in Machine-Readable Form: no charge (plus shipping)
2001
Softbound, 80-page guide to creating bibliographic records for Chinese rare book holdings to share in union catalogs, regardless of the library system used. Bilingual in Chinese and English, with examples from records created using RLIN®. Under the editorial direction of Sören Edgren at Princeton, the Guidelines grew out of a project to create an international union catalog of Chinese rare books in the RLG Union Catalog.

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RLG Magnetic and Optical Media Preservation Manual
2001/2002; only offered on the Web.
A concise but comprehensive guide to the major forms of magnetic and optical storage media in which scholarly/research information is held in libraries and archives; their long-term management and care; and the elements of successful magnetic/optical media preservation reformatting projects, from start to finish. Funded through a generous grant from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and written by James Wheeler with contributions from Robin Dale. This work brings the approach of RLG's earlier preservation microfilming manuals to bear on audio/video preservation needs, and addresses reliable methods of reformatting and preserving information stored on magnetic and optical media. To be notified by e-mail when this title is ready, add your e-mail to an automatic notification list.

Special pricing offer: $75. The RLG Archives Microfilming Manual together with the RLG Preservation Microfilming Handbook can be purchased for a total of $75 plus a single-title shipping/handling charge.

RLG Archives Microfilming Manual: $45
1994
Spiral-bound, 208-page manual addressing the needs of archivists and librarians who are managing projects and programs to microfilm archives and manuscripts. Written by members of the RLG Archives Preservation Microfilming Project; includes eight chapters and nine appendices covering issues from outsourcing of filming services to future digitization of microfilm produced today. Technical guidelines appear as an appendix.

Manual do RLG para Microfilmagem de Documentos (publication Nr. 53)
2001
The RLG Archives Microfilming Manual translated into Portuguese by the Projeto Cooperativo Conservação Preventiva em Bibliotecas e Arquivos is available at no charge from www.cpba.net.

RLG Preservation Microfilming Handbook: $45
1992
Spiral-bound, 216-page guide intended for use by library preservation administrators and filming service bureau staff. Contains the RLG guidelines for monographs and serials (prefilming, targeting, and filming technical requirements). Appendices address implementation issues faced by libraries mounting filming projects—from a sample request for proposals, to operational impact, to identifying defects in camera negatives.

Symposium Proceedings

Guidelines for Digital Imaging: A Joint RLG-NPO Preservation Conference
1998; offered on the Web.
Papers from an international conference held 28-30 September 1998 at the University of Warwick and co-hosted by RLG and the National Preservation Office, with generous support from the UK Office for Library and Information Networking and Joint Information Systems Committee. This event brought together preservation specialists and digital project managers to address guidelines for materials selection, preparation, and image capture, plus preservation metadata issues and best practices in digital preservation.

Enhancing Access to Primary Sources Internationally
1997; only offered on the Web.
Proceedings from a symposium held jointly by RLG and the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) on September 24, 1996, in London. This event was designed for information-sharing as a basis for future cooperative efforts among RLG's North American and overseas members. The 65 participants represented institutions responsible for and concerned about access to archives, special collections, manuscripts, rare books, museum objects, artworks, and other rare or unique cultural material.

Local Access to Global Collections: A Joint RLG-CURL Symposium on International Resource Sharing
1997; only offered on the Web.
Proceedings from a symposium held jointly by RLG and the Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) on September 23, 1996, in London. This event was designed to explore the similarities and differences in the resource-sharing context for RLG members on each side of the Atlantic; and to consider how RLG and its members could improve their users' access to international collections. Participants represented collection development, public/readers' services, and interlibrary loan/delivery services in North American and European research libraries.

Special pricing offer: $75
The entire set following, of printed RLG symposium proceedings issued from 1994 through 1996, can be purchased for a total of $75 without shipping/handling charge. This five-volume set comprises Selecting Library and Archive Collections for Digital Reformatting; Scholarship in the New Information Environment; RLG Digital Image Access Project; Digital Imaging Technology for Preservation; and Electronic Access to Information: A New Service Paradigm.

Selecting Library and Archive Collections for Digital Reformatting: $20
1996
Softbound, 172-page proceedings from an RLG symposium held November 5-6, 1995, in Washington, DC. The primary purpose of this event was to expose participants to the evolving environment in which selection decisions are being made and to provide them with the basic facts and selection strategies for making good decisions at their own institutions. As in previous symposiums, the concluding session focused on areas for RLG leadership and support.

Scholarship in the New Information Environment: $20
1996
Softbound, 76-page proceedings from an RLG symposium held May 2-3, 1995, at Harvard University. This 20th-anniversary event provided a forum to examine economic and other issues raised by the new electronic information environment, and to consider the potential for collaboration in designing and supporting this new information environment for research and higher education.

RLG Digital Image Access Project: $20
1995
Softbound, 104-page proceedings from an RLG symposium held March 31 and April 1, 1995, in Palo Alto, to wrap up two pioneering digital imaging projects launched in 1993 by RLG with members and with Stokes Imaging Services of Austin, Texas. This event convened project participants and experts in the field for reports on various aspects of the projects and discussion of questions the projects generated.

Digital Imaging Technology for Preservation: $20
1994
Softbound, 152-page proceedings from an RLG symposium held March 17-18, 1994, at Cornell University. This event was devoted to developing a common understanding about the uses of digital-image technology in preserving research resources.

Electronic Access to Information: A New Service Paradigm: $10
1994
Softbound, 83-page proceedings from an RLG symposium held July 23-24, 1993, in Palo Alto, California. This event focused on (1) exploring opportunities for cooperative action to take advantage of technology and improve electronic access to information; and (2) developing strategies for making the most effective use of both available technologies and electronic information itself in support of the research and teaching missions of RLG member institutions.

Photograph Preservation and the Research Library: no charge (plus shipping)
1991
Softbound, 56-page publication from an RLG symposium held at Stanford University in fall 1990. Contains a thoughtful introduction and five illustrated papers focused on the problems that deteriorating photographic collections pose to their repositories. The conclusion summarizes suggested cooperative actions toward addressing the shared challenge.

Computer Files and the Research Library: no charge (plus shipping)
1990
Softbound, 59-page publication from an RLG symposium held at Stanford University in fall 1989. Contains four papers exploring the many problems posed to research libraries in providing patrons access to machine-readable data in and outside of library collections; conclusion suggests possibilities for cooperative action.

Reports

New! Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities (PDF)
2002; only offered on the Web.
Final report from an international working group charged by RLG and OCLC to arrive at a definition and consensus on the characteristics of a sustainable digital repository for large-scale, heterogeneous research collections. The resulting 62-page document addresses the seven attributes such repositories must have; discusses requisite responsibilities at both the higher organizational/curatorial level and the operational level; looks at how repositories can be certified; and makes seven key recommendations.

New! Preservation Metadata and the OAIS Information Model—A Metadata Framework to Support the Preservation of Digital Objects (PDF)
2002; only offered on the Web.
Final report of an expert working group charged by OCLC and RLG to examine current practice in the use of preservation metadata and develop a comprehensive preservation metadata framework. (Preservation metadata is the information infrastructure necessary to support processes associated with the long-term retention of digital resources and is an essential component of most digital preservation systems.) This 54-page document is a guide to metadata applicable to a broad range of digital preservation activities. It represents the consensus of leading experts and practitioners and is intended for use by organizations and institutions managing, or planning to manage, the long-term retention of digital resources.

Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions
1998; only offered on the Web.
A study commissioned by RLG on the status of digital archiving in its member institutions. Presents findings from a survey in which 54 institutions participated. Designed to assist RLG in assessing where—and what kind of—guidance, education and training, storage, and digital preservation are most needed. Conducted by Margaret Hedstrom and Sheon Montgomery at the School of Information, University of Michigan.

Preserving Digital Information: Report of the Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information
1996; only offered on the Web.
Final report of a task force cosponsored by the Commission on Preservation and Access (CPA) and RLG to "frame the key problems that need to be resolved ... to ensure continuing access to electronic records indefinitely into the future"; define the critical inhibiting issues in solving these problems and recommend action on each; consider alternatives to "technology refreshing" as an acceptable approach; and make other appropriate recommendations on the general subject.

AMIS: Archives and Museum Information Service Demonstration: $20 (includes s/h)
1994
A 35-minute VHS videotape documenting the design and intended functionality of RLG's AMIS project at the point it was ended for lack of necessary development funding. Illustrates key aspects of a PC-based system linked to RLIN® that would enable archives and museums to provide staff and patrons with essential collections information; store and retrieve text, sound, and still and moving images; and manage daily operations, from accessioning and cataloging to exhibit planning, public events, and donor relations.

Preferred Library Futures II: Charting the Paths: no charge (plus shipping)
1993
27-page report on an invitational workshop for an array of stake holders in the university campus information environment of the future, held to explore options and potential projects for creating the desired environment. This event built on RLG's earlier Preferred Futures for Libraries sessions. Includes an afterword by RLG president James Michalko.

Preferred Futures for Libraries: no charge (plus shipping)
1991 (Photocopy of original publication.)
19-page report on workshops held on six university campuses early in 1991 that explored with small groups of library directors and chief academic officers from 41 campuses their vision for the future shape of libraries and information resources at their institutions. Sponsored by RLG and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Written by Richard M. Dougherty and Carol Hughes.

Government Records in the RLIN® Database: An Introduction and Guide: no charge
1990
Softbound, 17-page report on a resource first made available in the RLG Union Catalog in the late 1980s and greatly enhanced since: descriptions of the records of government agencies—and how those descriptions can be used for research.

Information Needs in the Sciences: An Assessment: $10
1991
Softbound, 79-page assessment of information needs in eight science disciplines; produced under the umbrella of RLG's 1985-1991 Program for Research Information Management (PRIMA), this survey helped lay the groundwork for such RLG services as Citation Resources (CitaDel®) and Eureka®. Prepared by Constance C. Gould and Karla Pearce.

Information Needs in the Social Sciences: An Assessment: $10
1989
Softbound, 56-page assessment of information needs in five social science disciplines; produced under the umbrella of RLG's 1985-1991 Program for Research Information Management (PRIMA), this survey helped lay the groundwork for such RLG services as Citation Resources (CitaDel®) and Eureka®. Prepared by Constance C. Gould and Mark Handler.

Information Needs in the Humanities: An Assessment: $10
1988
Softbound, 62-page assessment of information needs in eight humanities disciplines; produced under the umbrella of RLG's 1985-1991 Program for Research Information Management (PRIMA), this survey helped lay the groundwork for such RLG services as Citation Resources (CitaDel®) and Eureka®. Prepared by Constance C. Gould.

Articles in Others' Publications

"The International Sharing of Returnable Library Materials"
2000
Article by Dennis Massie in Interlending and Document Supply 28:3, pp. 110-116 (ISSN: 0264-1615). Discusses costs and risks involved with shipping returnable ILL materials across national boundaries that act as major barriers to scholarship. Describes recent efforts by RLG's SHARES program to study and overcome these barriers. Suggests actions that could lead to routine international sharing of valuable research materials. Available from the Emerald Library, www.emerald-library.com, or from MCB University Press, www.mcb.co.uk/ids.htm: click View Contents Pages under "About."

"Metadata and the World Wide Web"
2000
Article by Tony Gill in "Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information" (version 2.0), edited by Murtha Baca and produced by the Getty Standards Program. Gill "focuses on metadata and standards in the context of the World Wide Web, and outlines issues, opportunities, and challenges associated with working in this continually evolving information environment."

"Heritage, Scholarship and Preservation in the Digital Age"
1999
Chapter by Nancy Elkington in Making Information Available in Digital Format: Perspectives from Practitioners, edited by Terry Coppock, papers from the symposium "Creating Scholarly Resources in the Digital Age; Unlocking the Nation's Riches." Available from The Stationery Office's Bookstore, http://www.clicktso.com. Search the title or ISBN 0114972761, price (ex. VAT): £15.00. "Applications for reproduction should be made to The Stationery Office Limited, St Crispins, Duke Street, Norwich, NR3 1PD, UK."

"The Changing Nature of International Resource Sharing: Risks and Benefits of Collaboration"
1999
Article by Nancy Elkington and Dennis Massie in Interlending and Document Supply 27:4, pp.148-154 (ISSN: 0264-1615). "Discusses the history of international interlibrary loan, SHARES, the results of a survey by RLG, and offers suggestions for effective collaboration." Available from the Emerald Library, www.emerald-library.com, or from MCB University Press, www.mcb.co.uk/ids.htm: click View Contents Pages under "About."

"SHARES—RLG's shared resources programme"
1999
Article by Dennis Massie in Relay: The Journal of the University College and Research Group 49, pp.17-18 (ISSN 1357-0110). May be available from www.ucrg.org.uk/relay.html.

"Building the Seamless Web of Cultural Research Resources"
1998
Article by Anne Van Camp in Archives and Museum Informatics: Cultural Heritage Informatics Quarterly 12 (3/4), pp.287-292. Recommends collaborative effort to build seamless interdisciplinary and international access to information resources, and points to related projects and services. Available through Kluwer Academic Publishers Online, www.kluweronline.nl.

"Choosing Delivery Mechanisms for Commercial Web Applications"
1998
Article by Arnold Arcolio and Bruce Washburn in The Journal of Electronic Publishing 4:1 (ISSN 1080-2711). Arcolio and Washburn "reveal the philosophy—and the work—behind Eureka, RLG's online search-and-retrieval system."

"RLG: Making a Difference": no charge
1994
Reprint of a 26-page article by James Michalko, John W. Haeger, et al. from Library Hi Tech (Issue 46, 1994). Overview of RLG's successful, 20-year track record in partnering with member institutions as a pioneer in developing and expanding information resources while facing the challenges of the 1990s.

"Arabic Script on RLIN®": no charge
1992
Reprint of a 22-page article by Joan M. Aliprand from Library Hi Tech (issue 40, 1992).

"Hebrew on RLIN®—An Update" and "Hebrew Online: Current Issues and Future Concerns—A View from the Field": no charge
1989
Reprint of a 9-page article by Joan M. Aliprand and a 4-page article by Rosalie Katchen, bound together, from Judaica Librarianship (vol. 5, no. 1, 1989-90).

"Hebrew on RLIN®" and "RLG Introduces Cyrillic": no charge
1986
Reprint of a 12-page article by Joan M. Aliprand from Judaica Librarianship (vol. 3, no. 1-2, 1986-87), bound together with a 2-page article from The Research Libraries Group News (no. 10, May 1996).

User Services

Please note: The RLG Information Center page provides links and pointers to Web and print publications and other sources of help for users of RLG's services.

RLG Price Lists for Information Resources and Related Library Services
2003
Softbound, 22-page booklet summarizing RLG services; six pricing schedules—Nonsubscription Searching; Subscription Searching; Cataloging: Record Transfer and Marcadia®; Start-up and Customer Support; PC Software; Network Connections—plus service terms and how to order.

Last updated 26 August 2003

This site was frozen in 2004 and is now out of date. Please go to RLG's current Web site for all information. Questions? Contact us.

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