| Overview of topic and literature |
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Unit 1 - Enemies of Books |
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| 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 |
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| Mass deacidification -
what is it and what's available |
| Education of Staff &
Users |
| 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 |
| Hands-on Repair
(paper-mending) |
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| Contract Binding |
| Binding (video -
LBS) |
| Bindery Preparation &
Selection |
| Non-book Formats -
photographs, documents, AV formats |
| Rare & Special
Collections |
| Exhibits: Shedding
Light on the Case (video) |
| Tour of
Special Collections or Collections Maintenance Department |
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Unit 3 - Reformatting |
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| Reformatting options -
photocopying, microfilming and digitizing |
| Preservation Microfilming
(UMI-Video) |
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| Electronic Formats
(Access vs. Preservation) |
| Discussion of scanning,
web-sites and preservation |
| Internet resources for
information |
| Future Technologies -
Into the Future (Video) |
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Unit 4 - Disaster Response and
Prevention |
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| Iron
Mountain - Off site storage - DVD |
| Response and Recovery
Decisions |
| Insurance |
| Planning |
| Discussion of Prevention |
| Slow Fires -
balance of video |
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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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