| Overview of topic and literature |
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Unit 1 - Enemies of Books |
| Preservation education
for Staff &
Users |
| Murder In the Stacks
(30 min. video) discussion of preservation issues |
| Archival Quality
Materials |
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Vendors of supplies for book repair |
| Care & Handling of
Library Materials |
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Review of recent issues
including current literature
on the topic, especially Doublefold by Nicholas Baker and
accompanying professional commentary. |
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| Environmental Conditions |
| Mass deacidification -
what is it and what's available |
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| Building / Collection
Survey |
| storage conditions |
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Slow Fires (video) - first half |
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Unit 2 - Book Binding & Repair |
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Cleaning materials |
| Book Damage / Triage
- collection development and decision making |
- circulating collections
- rare and fragile
- medium rare - in need of consideration, last
copies -
Publishers Bindings Online
http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/
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| Bindery Preparation &
Selection |
| Contract Binding |
| Binding (video -
LBS) and The TS |
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US Government Printing Office - Bindery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMiwjKzWKrw |
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| Non-book &
Non-Paper Formats -
photographs, documents, AV formats
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| Rare & Special
Collections -
What can we
learn from the gutter of
Jefferson's Bible?
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National Museum of American History (Smithsonian) |
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| Tour of
Special Collections or Collections Maintenance Department |
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Slow Fires -
balance of video |
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Unit 3 - Reformatting |
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| Reformatting options -
photocopying, microfilming and digitizing |
| Preservation Microfilming
and digitization - which is best for your collection? |
| Electronic Formats
(Access vs. Preservation) - Iron Mountain Video of Bettman Archives |
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Discussion of scanning,
web-sites and preservation -
Preserving the
British Library’s C19 Newspaper Collection with Planets: a short
film |
| Internet resources for
information |
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| Exhibits: Shedding
Light on the Case (video) |
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Unit 4 - Disaster Response and
Prevention |
| How do you
respond to and prevent disasters? How do you integrate the library's or
archive's disaster response plan with that of the overall institution? |
| Response and Recovery
Decisions |
| Insurance |
| Planning |
| Discussion of Prevention |
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| Libraries in
the digital age (video and discussion) |
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| Distribute post class
assignment - Workshop evaluations |
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Workshop outline |
Workshop Books & Links |
Workshop Readings |
Additional Preservation Information |
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