Conserving Documents and Photographs for Future Generations

© by Erin Bradford

Part VI: Conservation Resources

Supply Vendors

Gaylord

Hollinger

Light Impressions

Metal Edge, Inc.

Online Resources

Albright, Gary, Storage Enclosures for Photographic Materials, Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, http://www.nedcc.org/plam3/tleaf411.htm

Byers, Fred R. Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003.http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/pub121.pdf

Caring for Your Family Archives - This site is from the National Archives and gives good suggestions on preservation of both documents and photographs.

Dating Old Photographs - This is a great site for tips on dating your photographs, especially for cabinet cards.

Emergency Salvage of Moldy Books and Records - a great resource on mold!

Emergency Salvage of Wet Books and Records - This is a great article for books and documents, see below for pictures.

Emergency Salvage of Wet Photographs - Another great article of salvation!

Handbook for Digital Projects - This is a pretty technical article, but part 2 gives a good discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of digitization and things to consider before you begin.

Removal of Damaged Fasteners from Historic Documents - This is a wonderful article! One thing to note is the difference in ideas of leaving rusted staples or not. One thing I have learned is that different institutions have different ideas. Where I work, we remove all staples and paper clips, but in this article they say to leave them if it will cause further damage to a document. Both points have merit and in the end, it's up to you.

Saving Photographs After a Flood - Good site, pertains more to an archival depository, but you can still apply the principles to your house.

Storage Solutions for Oversized Paper Artifacts - If you have anything to store larger than legal size paper, this is a great read!

Tempature, Relative Humidity, Light, and Air Quality: Basic Guidelines for Preservation - This is good for further reading on how these different environmental factors affect the rate of deterioration.

Types of Photographs - This is a pretty good site to determine what type of photograph you have. Only thing is that it can be very technical and not in layman's terms.

Offline Resources:

Kenney, Anne and Lynne K. Personius. The Commission on Preservation and Access: Joint Study in Digital Preservation Phase 1, A Report to the Commission on Preservation and Access. Washington, D.C.: The Commission on Preservation and Access, 1992.

Koelling, Jill Marie. Digital Imaging: A Practical Approach. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2004.

Lee, Stuart D. Digital Imaging: A Practical Handbook. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman, 2001.

Williamson, Ray A. "Opportunities and Challenges of Preservation Technologies." Archives and Museum Informatics. 13 (1999/2001), pp.211-225.

Go back to the Introduction (Part I)

Go forward to Conservation and Storage of Documents (Part II)

Go forward to Conserving Your Digital Photographs (Part III)

Go forward to Conserving Your Original Photographs (Part IV)

Go forward to Glossary and Description of Conservation Tools (Part V)

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