John, Patricia (author), Reynnells, Louise (author), and Rural Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Rural Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1990-10
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 81 Document Number: C04827
Cites a report indicating that more than 50 percent of the monographs and serials in the National Agricultural Library collection are disintegrating and that more than one-fourth of the volumes are brittle, requiring that their contents be transferred to another medium in order to be useful and to escape loss to the scientific world.
