Information on conservation issues. An electronic news and discussion group for those interested in rare books, manuscripts, special collections, and librarianship in special collections. It is open to anyone with a mature and abiding interest in the interdisciplinary study of libraries and information broadly construed to include literacy and reading, print culture, libraries and archives, computerization and automation, information retrieval and documentation, and electronic information and communication. The H-LIS electronic discussion group and Web site will consider all geographic regions and time periods in an effort to enhance understanding and interpretation of the LIS past. As such, its audience includes not only librarians, information scientists and archivists but also historians interested in a wide variety of information-related topics.
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