Preservation Week: Preserving Your Memories

In addition to preserving materials housed in libraries - have you ever considered ways to preserve your family memories?  The Preservation Week: Pass It On theme also include personal, family treasures that need care and attention.  Depending on the material type, different steps and processes will be required to ensure the long term care of your item.

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services maintains a Preserving Your Memories section, which highlights reviewed resources for preservation of paper, photographs, and more. 

A few highlights include:

• Preserving Works on Paper: Manuscripts, Drawings, Prints, Posters, Maps, Documents from the Library of Congress
• Care of Photographs from the Northeast Document Conservation Center
• Storage Enclosures for Photographic Materials from the Northeast Document Conservation Center
• Caring for your Treasures: Books from the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
• Caring for Textiles from the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
• Care, Handling, and Storage of Motion Picture Film from The Library of Congress