Keep your cultural resources safe for generations to come! Culled
from papers presented at a Library of Congress symposium in October
2000, The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources: To Preserve
and Protect examines the challenges you face in preserving and
safeguarding your library's resources. Twenty-two leading library
and archival professionals address critical issues on the
preservation and security of collections in cultural property
institutions, including libraries, museums, and archives. The book
explores the connections between physical security and the
preservation of our cultural heritage. The Strategic Stewardship of
Cultural Resources identifies the risks involved in preserving
cultural resources and presents effective strategies for security.
The book guides you through the process of evaluating preservation
and security programs, budgeting costs, determining the right
amount of facilities security, meeting the challenge of preserving
digital information, and coping with the negative effects of theft
and vandalism. The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources
focuses on four keys that are central to safeguarding your heritage
assets: physical securityprotection from theft, mutilation, damage
by water, fire, etc., with strategies used by the Library of
Congress and other major libraries preservationprotection from
deterioration through conservation and reformatting, using examples
from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of
Congress, and other institutions bibliographic controlknowing what
your library has inventory controlknowing where your collections
are The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources: To Preserve
and Protect also examines the FBI's Art Theft Program, national and
institutional requirements for preservation funding, and measuring
the effect of environmental elements (temperature, humidity, etc.)
on your collection. The book is an essential resource for library,
archive, and museum directors, preservation officers, security
professionals, curators, and archivists.
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