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Papers on rare and precious books and documents, which were presented at the 1983 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, include: (1) "Report on the State of Work on the Union Catalogue of Incunabula (GW) and Progress in the International Cataloguing of Incunabula" by Ursula Altmann (East Germany); (2) "Survey of Incunabula in France--Progress So Far" by Ursula Baurmeister (France); (3) "Census of Italian XVIth Century Editions: A Progress Report" by Maria Sicco (Italy); (4) "The Central Catalogue of Historical Libraries in the Castles of Bohemia and Moravia" by Jaroslav Vrchotka (Czechoslovakia); (5) "Buchmuseen: Ihre Probleme und Ihre Beziehungen zu Bibliotheken" (Book Museums: Their Problems and Their Relationship to Libraries) by Jaroslav Vrchotka (Czechoslovakia--paper in German); (6) "Retrospektive, Maschinenlesbare Katalogisierung in Munchen and Gottingen" (Retrospective, Machine-Readable Cataloging in Munich and Gottingen) by Klaus Haller (West Germany--paper in German); (7) "Technological Advances in Librarianship and Printing and the Teaching of the History of the Book" by Richard G. Landon (Canada); (8) "Computer Technology as Applied to Rare Book Cataloging" by Stephen Paul Davis (United States); (9) "The Curator's Point of View," an outline by Karl Dachs (West Germany) of librarians' and curators' concerns related to rare book preservation and conservation; (10) "The Incunabula Catalog of the Bavarian State Library" by Elmar Hertrich (West Germany); (11) "Progress Report on the ISTC [Incunabula Short Title Catalog]" by L. Hellinga (United Kingdom); and (12) "Der Gegenwartige Stand der Handschriftenbeschreibung in Osterreich" (The Present Status of Manuscript Description in Australia) by Otto Mazal (Austria--paper in German). (ESR)