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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Preservation Management Handbook by Ross Harvey And Martha R Mahard
Preservation how-to for every medium.Cultural heritage professionals—museum curators, museum professionals, archivists, and librarians— use their specialized knowledge to prioritize the needs of their collections. Preservation managers and collections care specialists draw from experts in climate control, fire safety, pest management, and more in assessing a collection and its needs. And all the special materials within the collections have their experts too.This revised second edition contains a wide range of topic-specific expertise that comprises both an enduring text for preservation and collections care students, as well as an essential one-stop reference for cultural heritage professionals—particularly those in small- to medium sized organizations where resources are limited and professional help, is not always accessible.Chapter coverage includes:PART I: FUNDAMENTALSChapter 1: Mapping the Preservation Landscape for the Twenty-first CenturyChapter 2: Preservation PrinciplesChapter 3: Managing Preservation: Policy, Assessment, PlanningChapter 4: Security and Disaster PlanningPART II: COLLECTIONSChapter 5: Artifacts and InformationChapter 6: The EnvironmentChapter 7: Creating Preservation-friendly ObjectsPART III: MEDIA AND MATERIALChapter 8: Putting it all together – environment and storage quick reference guidesChapter 9: Paper Objects and Books