Full Description
Designed as a "how-to" manual, Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries provides librarians with practical information to help them grapple with specific preservation challenges by identifying areas of concern, optimizing the use of resources put towards preservation, and establishing goals for continual improvement over time. Straightforward and pragmatic, it helps a library to reduce immediate and long-term preservation costs, and strengthen a library's collection development goals.
Topics include:
Preservation in the digital ageEstablishing long-term preservation goals Environmental conditions Preservation needs of specific collections Understanding use patterns for library materials Identifying potential threats to a collection Recognizing readily available preservation resourcesAlmost 50 photographs, figures, checklists, and other tools make this a practical guide libraries will use on a day-to-day basis.
Contents
Chapter 1Crossing the Preservation Rubicon
Chapter 2Environmental Conditions
Chapter 3Use Patterns
Chapter 4Collection Development
Chapter 5Preservation Resources Available
Chapter 6Library Binding
Chapter 7In-house Book Repair
Chapter 8Preservation Treatment Decision Making
Chapter 9Training Staff and Patrons on Care and Handling of Library Materials
Chapter 10Disaster Planning
Chapter 11Digital Preservation
Conclusion
