The Preservation Management Handbook: A 21st-Century Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Preservation how-to for every medium.Cultural heritage professionals—museum curators, museum professionals, archivists, and librarians— use their specialized knowledge to prioritize the needs of their collections. Preservation managers and collections care specialists draw from experts in climate control, fire safety, pest management, and more in assessing a collection and its needs. And all the special materials within the collections have their experts too. This revised second edition contains a wide range of topic-specific expertise that comprises both an enduring text for preservation and collections care students, as well as an essential one-stop reference for cultural heritage professionals—particularly those in small- to medium sized organizations where resources are limited and professional help, is not always accessible. Chapter coverage includes:PART I: FUNDAMENTALSChapter 1: Mapping the Preservation Landscape for the Twenty-first CenturyChapter 2: Preservation PrinciplesChapter 3: Managing Preservation: Policy, Assessment, PlanningChapter 4: Security and Disaster PlanningPART II: COLLECTIONSChapter 5: Artifacts and InformationChapter 6: The EnvironmentChapter 7: Creating Preservation-friendly ObjectsPART III: MEDIA AND MATERIALChapter 8: Putting it all together – environment and storage quick reference guides Chapter 9: Paper Objects and BooksChapter 10: Photographic MaterialsChapter 11: Digital Prints (A. Carver-Kubik)Chapter 12: Sound MaterialsChapter 13: Moving Image MaterialsChapter 14: Digital Storage Media and FilesChapter 15: Textiles Chapter 16: PaintingsIn addition to updated and expanded existing content, a new chapter on digital prints has been added to the Media and Material. Also new is Expanded information on disaster planning; A quick guide to good, better, and best preservation practices to help institutions strive to improve their own activities; A comparative terminology guide to assist in greater understanding between LAMs; and two quick references for temperature and relative humidity preferences for a wide range of collection materials.This comprehensive handbook is an invaluable reference. Read more