Publications and Reports
Preservation programs and projects occasionally produce information that is best made available by publication in a structured format. The titles listed below report research done during such projects.
Publications
A Directory to Photographs at Harvard. An online guide to over 7.5 million photographs held in the libraries, museums, archives, and research institutes at Harvard University.
A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard. By Melissa Banta, Weissman Preservation Center, with contributions by M. Susan Barger, Deborah Martin Kao, and Robin McElheny, and a foreword by Sidney Verba. Published for the Harvard University Library by the University of Iowa Press, ©2000.
Reports
"Acetate
Film Deterioration: Diagnosis and Storage," Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Library, 2007. 
"Bookish
fires: the legacy of fire in the Harvard libraries," Sarah K. Burke '05, Weissman Preservation
Center, Harvard University Library, 2010.
"Chronology of Events in Library Preservation at Harvard," Sarah K. Burke '05, Weissman Preservation
Center, Harvard University Library, 2010.
"Harvard Daguerreotypes, NHPRC-Sponsored Project: Brief Summary Report," Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Library, 2003.
"Measuring
Search Retrieval Accuracy of Uncorrected OCR: Findings from the Harvard-Radcliffe
Online Historical Reference Shelf Digitization Project," Library Digital Initiative Project Team, Harvard University Library, 2001.
"NEH-Funded Brittle Books Microfilming: Cumulative Statistics of Harvard's Contributions," Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Library, 2006.
"Page Image Compression for Mass Digitization," Harvard University Library, California Digital Library, Internet Archive, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2007.
"Postcards: Navigating the Preservation Options," Jan Merrill-Oldham, 1995.
"Preliminary
Report of Investigation to Optimize Microfilm for Digitization," Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Library,September, 2000.