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Kent State
University School
of Library & Information Science,
LIS 60654 – Preservation Management
Summer 2008 |
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60654 PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT (3)
http://www.slis.kent.edu
Types and causes of deterioration of various kinds of materials, storage
and preventive maintenance, preservation through photographic reproduction
and microforms, restoration of rare materials.
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Readings and texts:
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Preservation:
Issues and Planning.
Edited by Paul N. Banks and Roberta Pilette. (Chicago: American Library
Association, 2000) is the course’s primary and required text.
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Preservation of
Library & Archival Materials: A Manual
(NEDCC, 1999) is a
supplemental text; it is available without charge on the
World-Wide Web at
http://www.nedcc.org/ (Students are not expected to
purchase this NEDCC work.)
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Additional required
readings will be assigned through electronic mail and handouts.
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Course Syllabus &
Readings
Additional Readings as needed |
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Session 1 -
Review of
syllabus and course requirements.
Basic preservation
management principles and definitions
Discussion of Life Expectancy and Inherent Vice
View Slow Fires (video) in class
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Session 2 -
Preservation and
library management.
Coordinating projects,
budgets, personnel, funding, and keeping current through organizations and
publications.
Case Study #1 Distributed in Class due June 25
Readings
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Banks / Pilette: Chapter 1: “Defining the Library Preservation
Program: Policies and Organization.” Carolyn Clark Morrow.
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Chapter 3: “Preservation Program Planning for Archives and Historical
Records Repositories,” by Christine Ward;
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Banks / Pilette: Chapter 4: “Programs, Priorities, and Funding /
Margaret Child, Laura J. Word
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Roosa, Mark. “Some thoughts on the Race against Time and Inherent Vice:
Library Preservation in the Late Twentieth Century.” In Who Wants
Yesterday’s Papers? Essays on the Research Value of Printed Materials in
the Digital Age. Edited by Yvonne Carigan, et.al. Lanham, MD: The
Scarecrow Press, Inc. 2005 (e-reserve)
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Clareson, Tom. “The Next Wave of Statewide
Preservation Planning” Archival Products NEWS 15 No. 1 (2008)
distributed in class also available at
www.archival.com
(optional) NEDCC’s
Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual. (PLAM):
#1:1,5-8 Planning and Prioritizing
http://www.nedcc.org |
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Session 3 -
The indoor
environment and its control; pest management
Security issues, user
awareness and staff training.
View Murder in the Stacks video in class
Readings
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Banks /Pilette Chapter 2: “Preservation Programs in High-use Library
Collections.” Sara R. Williams.
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Banks / Pilette: Chapter 7: “Environment and Building Design,” Paul N.
Banks.
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Banks / Pilette Chapter 10 “Library and Archives Security” by Richard
Strassburg
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Library of Congress. “Paper and Its Preservation: Environmental
Controls.” Preservation Leaflet No. 2: A National Preservation Program
Publication. 1983 (e-reserve)
(optional) NEDCC’s
Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual. (PLAM): #1:8,
2:1-4,6 #3:10,11
http://www.nedcc.org |
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Session 4 -
Disaster
response and contingency planning
Readings
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Banks / Pilette: Chapter 9: “Preservation Management: Emergency
Preparedness,” by Sally A. Buchanan.
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Matthews, Graham “Disaster Planning - REDS all over the land?” NPO
e-Journal No. 4 (May 2006) available at
www.bl.uk/services/npo/journal/4/matthews.html
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Kahn, Miriam Disaster Response and Planning for Libraries (2nd
Ed) – Sections 1&2. (on Reserve)
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“Invasion of the Giant Mold Spore” by Sandra Nyberg SOLINET Leaflet no.
5, November 1987 now available online at
http://www.solinet.net/Preservation/Resources%20and%20Publications.aspx
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“A summer at Salisbury House: The protection of a small library during
renovations” Archival Products News (2005) V12 no 4 available at
www.archival.com
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Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared.
Special Report of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs S.Rept. 109-332 [Y 1.1/5:109-322]
READ Executive Summary and INTRODUCTION p 1-35 (on e-reserve)
(optional) NEDCC’s
Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual. (PLAM):
#3:1-9 Emergency Management
http://www.nedcc.org
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Session 5 -
Book structure
and components.
Collections Maintenance
Evaluating Products
Case Study #1 Due
View Library
Binding video in class
Readings
BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS
what you think about the storage ideas. Do you think they are practical?
Could a small institution incorporate these procedures or are they
suitable for large collections only? Could records centers and archives
use these techniques?
- Marcum, Deanna
B. The Future of Preservation.” Keynote Address for March 8.
2006 at Symposium on The 3-D’s of Preservation: Disasters, Displays,
Digitization.
http://www.loc.gov/library/reports/
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Session 6 -
Tour of
ICA (Intermuseum
Conservation Association) in Cleveland
Book structure and
components. - continued
Readings:
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Leonard, Kathryn. “Shelter and Sanctuary: Customizing Protective
Enclosures” Archival Products NEWS 13 No. 3 (2006) distributed
in class also available at
www.archival.com
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Cloonan, Michele V. “The Moral Imperative to Preserve” Library Trends
55 No. 3 (Winter 2007): 746-55. [Available through KentLink]
(optional) NEDCC’s
Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual. (PLAM):
#7: Conservation Procedures
http://www.nedcc.org |
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Session 7 -Quiz
#2 (½ hour at beginning of class)
Conservation treatment:
general collections of books and paper objects; concepts of rarity and
intrinsic value. Protective enclosures.
Hands on exercises
View – How to
operate a book in class
Submit a proposal for
research paper
View – How to
operate a book in class
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Readings
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Banks / Pilette:
Chapter 8: “Collections and Stack Management,” Duane A. Watson; and
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Chapter 13: “The
Conservation of General Collections,” by Jan Merrill-Oldham and Nancy
Carlson Schrock.
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Look at NEDCC’s
online course Preservation 101
http://unfacilitated.preservation101.org/loggedin.asp
What do you think
about the organization of the website?
Would you use this for
training at your institution?
Talk about the site’s
strengths and weaknesses?
What would you change, add or delete? And why?
(Optional) NEDCC’s PLAM: section 4, pp.249-313. Leaflets 1-11
www.nedcc.org |
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Session 8 -
Review and
selection of materials for conservation or replacement. Setting
priorities in the context of institutional collection management and
development policies and practices.
Copyright Review
Readings
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Banks / Pilette: Chapter 12: “Selection for Preservation,” by Carolyn
Harris.
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Chapter 5: “Planning for Preservation in Libraries,” Jutta Reed-Scott
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Baker, Nicholson Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
NY: Random House, 2001. READ CHAPTERS 1,4,10,34 (book on
reserve) and review rebuttals to the book as found at the following
links:
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Don't Fold Up: Responding to Nicholson Baker's Double Fold by
Richard J. Cox American Archivist (April 18, 2001)
http://www.archivists.org/news/doublefold.asp
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And SAA’s response to the book
www.archivists.org/statements/council-doublefold.asp
(optional) NEDCC’s
Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual. (PLAM):
#1:3 Planning and Prioritizing
http://www.nedcc.org |
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Session 9 –
Preservation of Non Paper / Non-Print Formats (photographs, AV, Maps,
Textiles and more)
Copyright Review
View Save our Sounds
video in class
Turn in Fact Sheet on
Formats for Presentations (for instructor copying)
Readings
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Banks / Pilette: Chapter 18: “Preservation of Information in Non-paper
Formats” by Eleanore Stewart, Paul N. Banks
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“ A Project Embracing Digital Media Preservation: Tradition Becomes less
Traditional” Archival Products News (2005) Vol 12 no 2 available
at
www.archival.com
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Katherine Pennavaria. “Non-print Media Preservation: a guide to
resources on the web" C&RL News (September 2003) v64:8 p529-533
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/
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Patton, Christopher Ann “Whispers in the Stacks.” American Archivist.
53 no. 2. (Spring 1990): 274-280.
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Wilhelm, Henry Permanence and Care of Color Photographs: Traditional
and Digital Color Prints, Color Negatives, Slides, and Motion Pictures
1993
http://www.wilhelm-research.com/book_toc.html chapter 1,9,16
(optional) NEDCC’s
Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual. (PLAM): #5
Photographs
http://www.nedcc.org |
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Session 10
Preservation of Non Paper / Non-Print Formats (photographs, AV, Maps and
more) – Continued
View Shedding
Light on the Case video in class
Field Trip to Map Library
Readings:
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Session
11 –
Exhibits and Displays
Guest lecturer: Cara
Gilgenbach – Special Collections Librarian - KSU
Discussion of
preservation and conservation activities in Special Collections and
Archives.
Format presentations
QUIZ 3
Readings
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Banks / Pilette: Chapter 16 “Special Collections Conservation” by
Eleanore Stewart, and
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Banks / Pilette Chapter 11: “Exhibition Policy and Preparation,” by
Roberta Pilette.
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National
Park Service Museum Handbook Part III Chapter 7: Using Museum
Collections in Exhibits (335K) Read Sections H & I
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/publications
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Higginbotham, Barbra Buckner. “The Influence of Rare Books, Documents,
Manuscripts, and Works of Art on Paper” in Our Past Preserved: A
History of American Library Preservation 1876-1910 Boston MA: G.K.
Hall & Co., 1990 (e-reserve)
(optional) NEDCC’s
Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual. (PLAM):
#2:5
http://www.nedcc.org |
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Session 12 -
Non-Print Materials -
Textiles, scrapbooks, etc.
Field Trip to Costume
Museum
QUIZ 4 (take home due 7/22)
Readings:
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Behler, Anne, Beth Roberts and Karen Debney. ”Circulating Maps
Collections at Pennsylvania State University: Preservation Challenges
and Solutions” Dttp: Documents to the People 34 No. 4 (Winter
2006): 33-36 [available through KentLink]
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Tanselle, C. Thomas. “Libraries, museums, and reading.” Raritan
12 no. 1 (Summer 1992) 63-83. Avail through KentLink
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“The Care and Handling of Art Objects: Practices in The Metropolitan
Museum of Art.” p 51-63 (distributed in class
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Session 13 - Digitization and Digital Preservation
Reformatting (copying, imaging) and preservation replacement.
Watch Iron
Mountain video
QUIZ 4 (take
home due)
Format
presentations
Readings:
and related materials at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/dlib-2part.html
BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS
– are the issues covered in these two articles the same today (12 years
later)? Or do we have new issues to consider. What would you consider the
most important to concern yourselves about in 2008?
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Hedstrom, Margaret L, Christopher A. Lee, Judith S Olson and Clifford A
Lampe. “’The Old Version Flickers More’: Digital Preservation from the
User’s Perspective” American Archivist 69, no.1 (Spring/Summer
2006): 159-186.
- Zorich Diane M.
“Defining Stewardship in the Digital Age” First Monday 12 No 7
(July 2007)
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/index
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Session 14 – Project Management – budgets & timelines
Vendor services.
"Brittle books Programs”
View “Into the
Future” video in class
Format
presentations
Research papers due
Readings
(optional) NEDCC’s
PLAM: Section 5, pp.315-353. Leaflets 1-5.
http://www.nedcc.org |
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Session 15 Digitization and its place in Preservation
View Into the Future
in class
Readings
Read through discussion guide and be prepared to discuss film in class
BE PREPARED
to discuss the concepts in this article and how this will affect your
ability to preserve digital materials.
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Library Trends 54 no 1 (Summer 2005) –available through KentLink –
Read 2 articles (to be assigned in class)
BE PREPARED
TO discuss the issues in the articles, why they are important, how can you
incorporate the concepts discussed in the articles to real life, smaller
preservation programs?
BE PREPARED TO
discuss what Levy has to
say. Why is it important for Preservation Librarians and Archivists to be
aware of the issues raised by Levy?
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Session 16 – July 31
Review of materials,
print & non-print formats
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Final Examination |
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