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Managing Preservation for Libraries and Archives - Current Practice and Future Developments (Paperback)
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Managing Preservation for Libraries and Archives - Current Practice and Future Developments (Paperback)
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The preservation of library and archival materials can encompass
everything from bookbinding and paper repair to new techniques for
maintaining and exploiting digital text, sound or images. Managing
Preservation for Libraries and Archives brings together an
international team of contributors presenting the latest findings
on key areas of preservation and addressing the most common storage
and retrieval problems for different types of media. The authors
also revisit traditional preservation and conservation approaches
and suggest how to develop policies for the future. First
summarising historical developments, the book sets out key
preservation principles, rationales for selecting materials for
preservation, and how to choose the best methods. Different
contributors report on state-of-the-art preservation techniques for
paper media and sound archives, explain how the appropriate
techniques can be applied and how storage and access can best be
managed in the long term. Later chapters analyse the benefits and
problems of digitising different types of materials; the long-term
viability of digital media; issues of access to digital surrogate
documents as opposed to the original medium; and the challenges in
the digital context of bibliographical control, cataloguing,
metadata, distribution and copyright protection. An extensive
chapter on international information sources provides signposting
to a wealth of guidance on the latest techniques. Managing
Preservation for Libraries and Archives will guide readers working
in the library, archives, museum and heritage sectors through the
choices between digital and traditional preservation techniques,
and prepare them for likely future developments in managing both
preservation and access.
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