Rescue mission (Continued from Page BIO) speaking, we’re quite happy with it.” Nobody claims to have the final word on preservation, and nobody knows what will be done after the shelf life of deacidified books expires in a few hundred years. The person overseeing the whole preservation effort at the Library of Congress is Deputy Librarian William J. Welsh. In 1980, dissatisfied with the library’s lack of a specific program, he met a friend, William 0. Baker, then board chairman of Bell Laboratories, at a building dedication. “Bill, stop what you’re doing now and take a look at this technology,” Baker advised Welsh. “It holds great promise.” After receiving that advice, .1 NOBODY HAS MORE HORSEPOWER UNDER FORTY. Under forty horses, nobody sells more tractors than we do. One reason is sipiple. We give you more choices. There are sixteen compact sizes, each a different model. One of them should fit you perfectly. And once you settle on the horsepower, there are still more choices. c 1485 Kubota FracturC orporation PO Bo* 7020 ( ompion (. A 40224 Your Participating Kubota Dealer Invites You To Come In And See The Full Line Of Kubota Tractors & Implements Welsh appointed several .com mittees. “The problem was that we were going to lose our cultural heritage, our cultural record,” he says. “We had the advantage over anybody else, because we have a large preservation activity over 100 people involved in this preservation in various stages.” Two-Pronged Attack Welsh decided to attack the problem in two ways: through the mass deacidification program for books and through an optical-disk program that uses sophisticated laser technology to miniaturize and preserve other data, from periodicals and newspapers to works of art. Of the optical-disk technology, Welsh says, “I suspect that in due course it .will replace microfilm” and eventually will be used to preserve books. Welsh reaches for a Louis L’Amour paperback, autographed Pick special options like 4-wheel drive, power steering or a hydraulic shuttle transmission. Or choose a Kubota-made implement, the best match for any of our Kubota tractors. There are, however, a couple of decisions we’ve made for you. Forexample,Kubota’s own liquid- Oaky Sculpture Contest planned at Wihr Valley Mall LANCASTER - A dairy sculpture contest will be held at Willow Valley Mall June 13 to 14 in conjunction with the Lancaster County dairy princess pageant. Entries should be at the mall between 8 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. on June 13. Prizes will be awarded at 9 p.m, that day. Entries should be picked up between 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. June 14. The mall is located for him by the author, a prolific writer of Western novels. “This is not going to last 20 years, not even this personal inscription,” Welsh complains. 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