Taking It Further
Additional Resources
This bibliography is not exhaustive, but has been prepared as a starting point to help you obtain more information on the structure and deterioration of paper-based collections.
General
Australian Heritage Collections Council. Caring for Cultural Material 1, reCollections: Caring for Collections Across Australia. http://amol.org.au/recollections/1/.
Bachmann, Konstanze, ed. Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Banks, Paul N. and Roberta Pilette. Preservation: Issues and Planning. Chicago: American Library Association, 2000.
Long, Jane S., and Richard W. Long. Caring for Your Family Treasures. Washington, DC: Heritage Preservation, 2000.
Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn, and Diane Vogt O'Connor, with Helena Zinkham, Brett Carnell, and Kit A. Peterson. Photographs: Archival Care and Management. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006.
Ink and Colorants
Ball, Philip. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
Dube, Liz, "The Copying Pencil: Composition, History and Conservation Implications." The Book and Paper Group Annual of the American Institute for Conservation 17 (1998): 45-52. http://www.pencilpages.com/articles/bp17-05.html.
Ink Corrosion Web site. http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/.
Mayer, Ralph. The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques. New York: Viking Press, 1981.
Petroski, Henry. The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.
Watercolors Web site. http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/pigmt1.html#pigmenttypes (Provides information on the history and characteristics of pigments.)
Parchment and Leather
Manning, David. "The Manufacture of Leather - Pt. 1." J. Hewit & Sons, Ltd. [Online], 1 (1996 Spring). http://www.hewit.com/sd1-leat.htm.
"Overview of Leather and Parchment Manufacture." Koninklijke Bibliotheek [Online]. http://www.kb.nl/cons/leather/chapter1-en.html.
Paper
Gascoigne, Bamber. How to Identify Prints: A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Ink Jet, 2nd ed. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2004.
Hunter, Dard. Papermaking: the history and technique of an ancient craft. New York: Dover, 1978.
Nadeau, Louis. "Office Copying and Printing Processes," from Guide to the Identification of Prints and Photographs: Featuring a Chronological History of Reproduction Technologies, 2002. http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/nadeau/copyingprocesses.pdf (PDF).
Price, Lois Olcott. "The Fabrication of Architectural Drawings to 1950," from Architectural Records Conference, May 3-5, 2000, Philadelphia, PA. http://www.ccaha.org/arch_rec/lecture.php?lec_id=price_fabrication.
National Information Standards Organization (NISO). Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997). Bethesda, MD: NISO Press, 1997. http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-48.pdf (PDF).
Photographs
Lavedrine, Bertrand. A Guide to the Preventive Conservation of Photograph Collections. Los Angeles: Getty, 2003.
Reilly, James M. Care and Identification of 19th-Century Photographic Prints. Rochester, NY: Eastman Kodak Co., 1986.
Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn, and Diane Vogt O'Connor, with Helena Zinkham, Brett Carnell, and Kit A. Peterson. Photographs: Archival Care and Management. Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006.
Books
Diehl, Edith. Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique. New York: Dover Publications, 1980.
Foot, Mirjam M. The History of Bookbinding as a Mirror of Society. London: The British Library, 1998.
Greenfield, Jane. The Care of Fine Books. New York: Lyons and Burford, 1988.
