Saving finished projects?

I'll apologize in advance if this is covered somewhere else but I did a fair amount of looking and found nothing.
When I'm done with a project I need to be able to burn all images and data to a DVD and an archive hard drive. I thought that binders were going to be the ticket. Now that there are no binders, what is the process.
I've been using 4.1 and really loving it. But if there is no way to save off finished projects in an way that will be useful in the future and also keeps my working library manageable, I can't see how this software can work for me. I am certainly willing to change my workflow but forever growing one library containing all projects is just not reasonable for me. Does each project need its own library?
Thanks.

Morgan,
I've been using separate libraries for each project as a guard against the flakiness that emerged (for me at any rate) when the libraries got big.
My basic plan (I've tried it on a small three day job with a separate library for each day and it seems to work) is thus:
* Make a "master library" but don't work directly with it just yet
* Make a separate "project" library for each job - import images, develop, print, galleries, whatever
* At some (any) convenient point, write XMP files for all relevant images (still working to understand the "no JPEG XMP" impact on my keywording, rating and the like)
* Cleanly import the images into the master library (it reads the data from the XMP and so all the LR work comes in with the image)
* [ Updating XMPs in the project library and reading across the changes seems possible but I haven't quite cracked it yet. For those inevitable "oh I've just noticed that..." moments. ]
* When the project is archived, open the master database and re-connect the entries for that project with the archive medium (eg DVD)
This gives me (I think) everything I want:
- small, robust libraries on a per-project basis, can be archived with the project. When the files are reinstated to their original location, LR never knew they were gone.
- a large, overall library (that may or may not be so robust) that can be reconstructed by re-importing images and XMPs held on backup media if required - a lot of elapsed time but not much interactive time (presumes the database has become corrupt rather than a disk crash or something).
- a reference in the large library to exactly which archive medium contains which project without the need to mount it in order to browse previews.
I reserve the right to be wrong about some or all of this, I'm still thinking it through.
Damian

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