Preservation Management for Libraries, Museums and Archives

Name/Title

Preservation Management for Libraries, Museums and Archives

Entry/Object ID

2008.013.1

Description

Discusses managing preservation in today’s information age. Concise and readable essays, written by cutting-edge preservation practitioners, provide the latest research and guidance on key issues such as policy and planning, preserving intangible heritage, indigenous property rights, and collections accessibility. They also tackle contemporary issues facing collecting institutions, from preserving cultural heritage in times of conflict to collecting and preserving digital artifacts. This resource is helpful as both a philosophical overview of preservation and a practical guide featuring case studies. The book concludes with the editors’ summation of the future of collections management and what new approaches will be necessary to address it. Use this resource to: get an overview of contemporary preservation issues; review the preservation of new media; introduce preservation-led decision-making into institutional management. Contents: Managing the documentary heritage : issues for the present and the future / John Feather -- Preservation policy and planning / Mirjam Foot -- Intangible heritage : museums and preservation / David Grattan and John Moses -- Surrogacy and the artefact / Marilyn Deegan -- Moving with the times in search of permanence / Yola de Lusenet -- Valuation model for paper conservation research : a new approach for setting research priorities / Henk J. Porck ... [et al.] -- Preservation of audiovisual media : traditional to interactive formats / Bob Pymm -- Challenges of managing the digitally born artefact / Barbara Reed -- Preserving cultural heritage in times of conflict / Rena^e Teijgeler -- Access and the social contract in memory institutions / Helen Forde -- Redefining ’the collection’ in the 21st century / G.E. Gorman and Sydney J. Shep. xviii, 206 p. ; 24 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2008.013.

Source or Donor

Institution of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Connecting to Collections Grant

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift in Honor of America's Collections, 2008

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Library materials--Conservation and restoration, Library materials--Digitization, Archival materials--Conservation and restoration, Archival materials--Digitization, Museum conservation methods, Paper--Preservation, Cultural property--Protection

Book Details

Publisher

Facet Pub.

Place Published

Location

London, England

Date Published

2006

Call No.

Z701.3 .D54 P74 2006

ISBN

9781856045742

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Location

Room

Reference/Research, Margaretta P. Childs Archives

Building

Missroon House

Category

Permanent

Date

February 7, 2023

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Category

Permanent

General Notes

Note

Notes: Edited by G.E. Gorman and Sydney J. Shep. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Created By

admin@catalogit.app

Create Date

August 19, 2008

Updated By

sferguson@historiccharleston.org

Update Date

April 5, 2023