The preservation management handbook: a 21st-century guide for libraries, archives, and museums

Abstract

"Museum curators, museum professionals, archivists and librarians from small local history museums to world-famous art and natural history collections, must deploy their specialized knowledge to prioritize the needs of their collections. This revised volume has a wide range of topic-specific expertise that comprises both an enduring text for preservation students as well as an essential one-stop reference for cultural heritage professionals where resources are limited and professional help is not always at hand"--

Contents

PART I: Fundamentals -- Mapping the preservation landscape for the twenty-first century -- Preservation principles -- Managing preservation: Policy, assessment, planning -- Security and disaster planning -- PART II: Collections -- Artifacts and information -- The environment -- Creating preservation-friendly objects -- PART III: Media and material -- Putting it all together: Environment and storage quick reference guides -- Paper objects and books -- Photographic materials -- Digital prints -- Sound materials -- Moving image materials -- Digital storage media and files -- Textiles -- Paintings.