Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution Summit on the Museum Preservation Environment

Contents

Letter from the Secretary / G. Wayne Clough -- Foreword / Nancy Bechtol and Scott Miller -- Introduction / Sarah Stauderman and William G. Tompkins -- Presentations. Climate guidelines for heritage collections: where we are in 2014 and how we got here / Stefan Michalski -- Risk assessment and assignment of environment parameters / R. Robert Waller -- Conservation environments, museum buildings, and sustainability / Michael Henry -- Choosing standards and best practices for environmental design and operation / James M. Reilly -- An overview of a process and specification: the British Standards Institute Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 198, "Specification for managing environmental conditions for cultural collections" / Jonathan Ashley-Smith -- Sustainability: climate for culture / Fiona Cousins -- Panel discussion -- Relationships, respect, and trust: collaboration among museum and facility professionals.