The full title of this Preconference was Getting Ready for the Nineteenth Century: Strategies and Solutions for the Acquisition, Cataloging, Preservation, and Research Use of Published and Unpublished Materials from the Nineteenth Century. This presentation reviewed implications on this theme drawn from The LUCILE project: see http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile (or click on the "home" tab of the page linked to the presentation).