Author: William P. LullPublisher: Canadian
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Conservation Environment Guidelines for Libraries and Archives
Author: William P. LullPublisher: Canadian
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Environmental Guidelines for the Storage of Paper Records
Author: William Kester WilsonPublisher: Bethesda, Md. : NISO Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Guidelines for Environmental Conditions in Archives and Libraries
Author: William K. WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival materials
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Environmental Conditions for Exhibiting Library and Archival Materials
Author: National Information Standards Organization (U.S.)Publisher: Niso Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This standard establishes criteria to minimize the effect of environmental factors on deterioration of library and archival materials on exhibit. Specific parameters are recommended for exposure to light, relative humidity, temperature, gaseous and particulate contaminats, display techniques, and case and support material components. The standard is intended as a guide for librarians, archivist, exhibition designers, and others involved in preparing library and archival materials for exhibition.
Guidelines for Environmental Conditions for Storage of Paper-based Non-photographic Records in Archives and Libraries
Author: William K. WilsonCare of Collections
Author: Simon KnellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134830459
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This volume provides a practical guide to all aspects of collections care including conservation practice, the monitoring of control of light, relative humidity and atmospheric pollution, biological infestation and disaster planning.
Preservation
Author: Paul BanksPublisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838907764
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Preservation: Issues and Planning provides a definitive and authoritative analysis of how to plan for and ensure the long-term health of an institution's collection in this digital age.
The Museum Environment
Author: Garry ThomsonPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483102718
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Museum Environment, Second Edition deals with the behavior and conservation of the various classes of museum exhibit. This book is divided into six sections that provide museum specifications for conservation. This text highlights the three contributing factors in the deterioration and decay of museum exhibits, namely light, humidity, and air pollution. Each section describes the mechanism of deterioration and the appropriate “preventive conservation . The changes in this edition from the previous include the electronic hygrometry, fluorescent lamps, buffered cases, air conditioning systems, and data logging and control in historic buildings. This book is of great value to conservation researchers and museum workers.
Preservation of Archives in Tropical Climates
Author: René TeygelerPublisher:
ISBN: 9789074920148
Category : Archival materials
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Management of Library and Archival Security
Author: Robert K O'NeillPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131794853X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Providing a substantive approach to the issue, Management of Library and Archival Security: From the Outside Looking In gives librarians and collection directors practical and helpful suggestions for developing policies and procedures to minimize theft. In addition, this text prepares you to deal with the aftermath of a robbery or natural disaster that destroys priceless materials. Through expert opinions and advice, Management of Library and Archival Security will teach you how to protect and secure invaluable collections and the finances invested in them. In addition, Management of Library and Archival Security offers numerous suggestions for preserving collections from environmental hazards and natural disasters. Contributors discuss several possible scenarios leading to the loss or destruction of library or archive materials and offer numerous measures of protection, including: implementing timely inventory standards, using approved marketing practices, keeping good user records, and having knowledge of insurance coverage making a recovery plan that deals with the impact of a theft and how it may affect staff and the actual workings of a department or archive knowing who to contact after a theft, such as local enforcement agencies, federal officials, and listing the theft on the Library Security Officer Listserv (LSO) to alert local and national libraries and collectors to the crime incorporating internal audits in a university setting to prevent crime and ensure accounting and administration controls are effective and efficient instituting a preservation program for collections, which includes temperature control of the indoor environment, studying the building design for weaknesses or potential dangers, reformatting deteriorating materials, and limiting the handling of materials making plans for the aftermath of a disaster, such as creating methods for risk assessment, developing collection priorities, and making rehabilitation policies for materials The chapters in Management of Library and Archival Security offer unique insight from a former F.B.I. agent with extensive experience in library thefts, a preservation specialist, and an archivist with extensive conservation experience in order to provide you with all of the information you need to safeguard library and archive collections against theft, environmental conditions, natural disasters, and resultant financial loss.