The preservation management handbook : a 21st-century guide for libraries, archives, and museums
2020
Book
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN: 9781538109014
Edition: Second edition.
Description: 373 pages ; 26 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
LCCN: 2019043513
Control Number: 3128436
Publisher: Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2020]