Volume 11, Number 4
Jun 1987

Editor's Page

Corrections

In the January issue of this Newsletter, the prices of the ARL Preservation Planning Program Manual and the accompanying Resource Notebook were incorrectly quoted as $10 and $20; actually, they are $15 and $35.

On page 10 of the same issue, the telephone number of Filmlife Inc. was one digit off: it should have been (201) 440-8500. (This is the firm that restores "tired, poor scratched buckled torn masses of oil stained deteriorated film,...the wretched refuse of your film library.")

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