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Cooperative preservation projects have been undertaken for years in developed countries such as the United States and Japan. These projects will assist those institutions holding old and precious collections in order to save the image of the collections in a different media, hence those precious materials can be well preserved and shared among libraries. This paper first states the importance of cooperative preservation project, then points out the various tasks needed to preserve old and rare books in Taiwan and Mainland China, finally suggests some important ways in selecting valuable materials to be preserved. A comparison between microfilming and digitization is also provided in this paper.
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