Preservation.

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- Subject Terms:
  MUSIC librarianship; SOUND recordings; COLLECTION development in music libraries; PRESERVATION of materials
- Abstract:
  Discusses preservation programs employed at various music libraries. Preservation problems that are nearly unique to music; Library furniture vendors' accommodation of the needs of music libraries; Problems created by the use of performance materials; Benefits of digitization; Decision about what to preserve as depending on judgments of recordings' intellectual content.