Preservation Week: More Web Resources

Learn more about Preservation Week on the web from the following resources:

ALCTS Preservation Week: www.ala.org/preservationweek

Site provides information and ideas to help you celebrate Preservation Week. It includes a Speakers

Bureau, tip sheets, links to basic and extensive preservation information, and information about programs to be offered during Preservation Week. It is complemented by an ALA Preservation@Your Library web page for the general public.

 

American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works: Caring for

Your Treasures

Guidance for care of common categories of collections, printable as handsome two-sided 8.5 x 11” broadsides.  Heritage Preservation: Heritage Health Index and The Caring Books and Downloadable Documents. These provide valuable preservation information, with extremely useful information about responding to sudden emergencies in collections.

Institute of Museum and Library Services, Connecting to Collections
Links to online resources, grouped by category, at http://www.imls.gov/collections/index.htm, and a
bibliography of collections care titles distributed as a bookshelf to more than 2,500 local libraries and
museums (http://www.imls.gov/news/2008/080508_list.shtm). Includes hard-to-find categories like
audio-visual and digital materials. Information includes video and news about IMLS’s national conservation initiative.

Library of Congress: Preservation
Includes simple instructions for preserving family treasures and caring for collections with links to more comprehensive information grouped by topic and type of material.

Society of American Archivists: Preservation
Selected Links to Preservation Web Sites, Links to a wide variety of Web sites with preservation information useful to archivists and archives, among others.  Memories and treasures should last a lifetime and be passed on to future generations. President Obama once wrote, “Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores.” The memories and treasures of individuals, families, and communities are essential to our record of this process—they contribute to our understanding of history and its participants just as collections in libraries, museums, and archives do.

-Excerpted from What is Preservation Week?