Permanent Paper: Progress Report III: The UNESCO Resolution

• International standard ISO 9706. Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence. ISO (International Standard Organization), Geneva first edition, March 1994.

• Another ISO standard for archival papers has been added, using the same general specifications, requiring the addition of cotton fiber for greater strength: ISO 11108.

• Expert Meeting on Conservation of Acid Paper Material and the Use of Permanent Paper, December 17-19 1991, The Hague. Proceedings of an expert meeting organized by the European Commission (DGX) in collaboration with the Dutch Presidency, National Preservation Office, The Hague, 1992, 115 p. ISSN 0926-2930.

• European Directory of Acid-free and Permanent Paper, 2nd ed. Marc Walckiers (ed.). Brussels: Librime, European Foundation for Library Cooperation/Groupe de Lausanne, 1994. "A Swets-EFLC Survey: 68 European Publishers Use Acid-Free Paper". In EFLC Newsletter 8: 2 (March 1994). Lisse, Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger.

• "North American Permanent Papers", Abbey Publications, 7105 Geneva Drive, Austin, Texas 78723, USA. (Also contains the text of the Second Report (1993) to the U.S. Congress on Public Law 101-423 to establish a National Policy on Permanent Papers; The Nature of Permanence" by Ellen McCrady; and "Some Happenings on the Way to the Development of Permanent Record Papers by William K. Wilson).

• Another edition of this catalogue is expected to be published later in 1998. It will be expanded to include: cotton paper made at a neutral Ph; matboard and museum board; buffered wood-containing paper suitable for professional journals; paper and board for the safe storage of photographs; watermarked permanent papers; dark or bright-colored permanent paper or board; handmade and artist's papers; and other kinds of archival papers and boards that mills can make on request.

• Alkaline Paper Advocate. Austin, Texas: Abbey Publications.

• Frase, Robert W. "Permanent Paper: A Progress Report". IFLA Journal 17(4):366-370(1991).

• American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives, ANSI/NISO 39.48-1992, National Information Standards Organization, POB 1056, Bethesda Maryland 20827, USA.

• Preserving our Documentary Heritage: The Case for Permanent Paper, prepared for the IFLA Section on Conservation by Robert W. Frase, with the assistance of Jean I. Whiffin, 1996, IFLA, POB 95312, 2509 CH The Hague, Netherlands.

• Final Report to Congress on the Joint Resolution to Establish a National Policy on Permanent Papers, Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, Senate Document 104-24, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, 1996. (A commentary on this report appears in a statement by Senator Claiborne Pell in the U.S. Congressional Record of September 25, 1996, pages s. 11326-28.).

• Frase, Robert W. "Permanent Paper: Progress Report II". IFLA Journal 21 (1):44(1995).

• Newsletter of the IFLA Section on Preservation and Conservation (irregular), Ralph Manning (ed.). National Library of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.

• International Preservation News: A Newsletter of the IFLA Core Programme on Preservation and Conservation. Published three times a year. Bibliothèque nationale de France, IFLA PAC International Centre, 2, rue Vivienne, 75084 Paris Cedex 02, France. ISSN 0890-4960