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Preservation and Emergency Planning

On this page:

▪  General resources

▪  Needs Assessments / Policies

▪  Preservation of specific media

   ▪  Paper

   ▪  Photographs

   ▪  Sound and Film

   ▪  Digital / Electronic Records

▪  Disaster Preparedness Planning

▪  Supplies

▪  Publications 

COMMENT on this page

Revised February 2010   MH

GENERAL RESOURCES  (online)

CCI Notes

(Canadian Conservation Institute, 2010)

CoOl -- Conservation Online

(Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation, 2010)

Preservation and Conservation

NAGARA Online Document Library

(NAGARA: National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators, 2010)

Frequently Asked Questions

Preservation and Archives Professionals

(U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 2010)

Library of Congress Preservation

(Library of Congress - USA, 2010)

LYRASIS Preservation

(Lyrasis, 2010?)

CLIR Publications

(Council on Library and Information Resources, 2009)

Imation National Media Lab

(Imation Corp., 2009)

Preservation and Access International Newsletter

(Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998-2000)

Basic Conservation of Archival Materials (Red Book)  

(Canadian Council of Archives Preservation Committee, 1990)

NEEDS ASSESSMENTS AND POLICIES  (online)

Sound Archives Preservation Policy 

(Radio New Zealand Sound Archives, 2010?)

Developing a Conservation Policy for the Museum

(Ontario Museum Notes #4, Ontario Ministry of Culture, 2007)

PRONI Preservation of Records, Preservation Policy

(Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2006)

Assessing Preservation Needs : a Self-Survey Guide / Beth Patkus

PRESERVATION OF SPECIFIC MEDIA  (online)

Paper

IPH: welcome to fibre space

(International Association of Paper Historians, 2009)

Paper and Books

(CCI Notes, Canadian Conservation Institute, 1993-1997)

Photographs

Wilhelm Imaging Research

(Henry Wilhelm and Carol Brower Wilhelm, 2010)

Image Permanence Institute

(Rochester Institute of Technology, 2010)

IPI Media Storage Quick Reference / Peter Z. Adelstein

(Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2009)

Photographic Media Storage Enclosures / Rosaleen Hill, BC Archival Preservation Service

(Archives Association of British Columbia, ca.2007)

Cold Storage of Photographs at the City of Vancouver Archives  / Sue Bigelow 

(Canadian Council of Archives, 2004)

A Guide to the Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections /  Bertrand Lavédrine

(Getty Conservation Institute, 2003)

Care of Photographic Materials

(CCI Notes, Canadian Conservation Institute, 1995-1996)

Sound and Film

Image Permanence Institute

(Rochester Institute of Technology, 2010)

Magnetic Media Restoration Headquarters

(Vidipax, under re-construction - Feb. 2010)

Care for AudioVisual Materials

(National Film and Sound Archive, Australia, 2008)

Film Preservation Handbook

(National Film and Sound Archive, Australia, 2008)

Preservation Resources

(Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE, 2007)

IPI Storage Guide for Acetate Film / James M. Reilly

(Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1993)

Digital / Electronic Records

PADI gateway to international digital preservation resources

(National Library of Australia, 2010?)

CLIR Reports

(Council on Library and Information Resources, 2009)

Sample reports:

Pub 141.  Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization, A White Paper / Oya Y. Rieger. February 2008

Pub 92.    Authenticity in a Digital Environment. May 2000

Pub 80.    Why Digitize? / Abby Smith. February 1999

Pub 69.    Digitization as a Method of Preservation? / Hartmut Weber and Marianne Dorr. October 1997

Electronic Storage Media

(CoOl -- Conservation Online, Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation, 2008)

Sustainability of Digital Formats

(Library of Congress - USA, 2007)

Optical Disk Media / Rosaleen Hill, BC Archival Preservation Service

(Archives Association of British Columbia, ca.2007)

Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards, 2nd edition

/ Franziska S. Frey and James M. Reilly

(Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2006)

Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation & Access, First Ed. /  Maxine K. Sitts, ed.

(Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000)

DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PLANNING (DPP)    (online)

Disaster Preparedness and Recovery

(NAGARA: National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators, 2010)

Facilities and Buildings

(NAGARA: National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators, 2010)

Emergency Preparedness: Introduction

(Library of Congress Preservation, 2009)

Integrated Pest Management Program

(National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2009)

First Aid for Fire Damaged Audio Visual Material

(National Film and Sound Archive - Aust., 2008)

PRONI Preservation of Records, Disaster Plan Template

(Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2007)

Emergency Preparedness for Cultural Institutions: Introduction

Emergency Preparedness for Cultural Institutions: Identifying and Reducing Hazards

(CCI Notes 14/1-2, Canadian Conservation Institute, 1995)

Preventive Conservation

(CCI Notes, Canadian Conservation Institute, before 2010)

SUPPLIES   (online)

Archival Products.ca

(Mississauga, Ontario)

Archivart

(Paramus, NJ, USA)

Brodart

(Brantford, Ontario)

Bury Media and Supplies

(Burnaby, BC)

Carr McLean

(Toronto, Ontario)

Conservation Resources International

(Springfield, Virginia, USA)

Directory of Archival Suppliers

(ArchivesCanada.ca)

Light Impressions

(Santa Fe, California, USA)

University Products

(Holyoke, MA, USA)

PUBLICATIONS   (for sources click here)

Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual  (Third Edition) / Sherelyn Ogden, ed.

(Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2007)
 

Mould Prevention and Collection Recovery: Guidelines for Heritage Collections (CCI Technical Bulletin #26) / Sherry Guild and Maureen MacDonald

(Canadian Conservation Institute, 2004)

A Guide to the Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections /  Bertrand Lavédrine, 2003

The Storage Guide for Color Photographic Materials / James M. Reilly

(University of the State of New York, New York State Education Department, New York State Library, the New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials, 1998)

New Tools for Preservation: Assessing Long-Term Environmental Effects on Library and Archives Collections / James M. Reilly, Douglas W. Nishimura, and Edward Zinn

(Commission on Preservation and Access, 1995)

The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures / Henry Wilhelm and Carol Brower Wilhelm, 1993. 744p

Care and Identification of 19th-Century Photographic Prints / by James M. Reilly

(Eastman Kodak Company,1986)

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