Brittle Books Reformatting

The Preservation Office's Reformatting Unit is responsible for creating replacements or surrogates of books too brittle to repair.

Subject liaisons, selectors and bibliographers make the decision to replace an item with a preservation photocopy, microfilm or digital reproduction.

Preservation photocopies aim to create a near facsimile of the original item by maintaining page registration, reproducing halftone, continuous tone and color illustrations, and copying endsheets if they include vital information.

Preservation microfilming preserves the intellectual content of brittle or rare materials. The Emory University Libraries have participated in many grant funded microfilming projects. Preservation microfilm allows for practical interlibrary loan of rare or unique Emory Libraries materials to other libraries.

The Reformatting Unit also creates digital reproductions of library materials.