Conservation & Preservation Resources

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Download the Emergency Response and Salvage App free from iTunes. The App was developed by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training and Heritage Preservation.

Museumpests.net contains resources for pest identification and prevention.

Watch fungus bloom all over a book.

AIC's website has more information about the conservation profession, and resources for preserving your personal collections.

For more care and handling information, visit this blog post from Duke University Library Preservation. It's a roundup of some care and handling videos produced by library preservation departments.

Supplier of Pig absorbent pillows, socks, mats, etc.

A recently digitized slide show with accompanying audio, complete with projector advancing pulses! And all the care and handling information is still valid and relevant.

NEDCC leaflet on storing large paper items.

Harvard Library's guide to care and handling of videotape

Care and handling video for special collections at Harvard.

Informational leaflet about photographs from the Library of Congress.

Conservation tools and supplies

Preservation and conservation supplies, primarily housings like pamphlet binders and four-flap enclosures.

General library supplies, including some archival housings and preservation supplies.

Archival housings and other supplies