Managing Preservation for Libraries and Archives : Current Practice and Future Developments /

• Corporate Author: Taylor and Francis.
• Other Authors: Feather, John, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].
• Edition: First edition.
• Subjects: Archival materials > Conservation and restoration.; Library materials > Conservation and restoration.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

The preservation of library and archival materials can encompass everything from bookbinding and paper repair to new techniques for maintaining and exploiting digital text, sound or images. Managing Preservation for Libraries and Archives brings together an international team of contributors present...

Table of Contents:

• Contents: Introduction: principles and policies, John Feather; The malleability of fire: preserving digital information, Colin Webb; Selection for digital preservation: dilemmas and issues, Majlis Bremer-Laamanen and Jani Stenvall; Issues in the long-term management of digital material, Adrienne Muir; Preserving paper: recent advances, Ren Teygeler; Sound recordings: problems of preservation, Dietrich Schller; Preservation management: sources of information, Graham Matthews; The future, Marie-Thrse Varlamoff; Index.