The filmer will retain the negative. Several Council members expressed concern about keeping prices for film within reason. The six IFLA-PAC centers around the world will distribute revised Principals on the care and handling of library materials. They plan to publish it in several languages. There is also the International Program of CLIR which is funded by Mellon.
Funding is on a three-year cycle.
A Mellon-funded project in Brazil is supporting the translation into Portuguese of 52 titles concerned with preservation and conservation. These will also be distributed in Lusophone Africa. It's important to survey what contacts have already been made and prepare some introductory material listing projects that have already been done. Letters followed by contacts to selected people would be the next step. Hans Rutimann would be willing to help identify contacts and provide introductions.