Taking it Further

Additional Resources

This bibliography is not exhaustive, but has been prepared as a starting point to help you obtain more information about reformatting and conservation treatment of collections.

Library Binding

Library Binding Institute. www.lbibinders.org. See this site for a draft update of the Guide to the Library Binding Institute Standard for Library Binding.

National Information Standards Organization and the Library Binding Institute. Library Binding. ANSI/NISO/LBI Z39.78-2000. Bethesda, MD: National Information Standards Organization, January 2000. http://www.niso.org/kst/reports/standards/kfile_download?id%3Austring%3Aiso-8859-1=Z39-78.pdf&pt=RkGKiXzW643YeUaYUq... (PDF).

Paper Reproductions

American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives. ANSI/NISO Z39.48 1992(R2002). Bethesda, MD: National Information Standards Organization, 2002. http://www.niso.org/kst/reports/standards/kfile_download?id%3Austring%3Aiso-8859-1=Z39-48-1992R2002.pdf&pt=RkGKiXzW643YeUaYUqZ1BFwDhIG4-24RJbcZBWg8uE4vWdpZsJ... (PDF).

Harvard University Libraries. "Guidelines for Preservation Facsimiles." http://preserve.harvard.edu/guidelines/facsimiles.html.

Library of Congress. "Preservation Photocopying." http://www.loc.gov/preserv/care/photocpy.html

Preservation Microfilming

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) eStandards Store. http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/default.asp. Provides abstracts of various ANSI and ISO (International Organization for Standardization) standards for imaging materials.

Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM). Standards Committees: Micrographic Quality and Control Committee. http://www.aiim.org/standards/article.aspx?ID=30956. Provides references to ANSI/AIIM standards relating to micrographics.

Dalton, Steve. "Microfilm and Microfiche," in Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual. 3rd ed. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 1999. http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/6Reformatting/01MicrofilmAndMicrofiche.php.

Elkington, Nancy E., editor. RLG Archives Microfilming Manual. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, Inc., 1994.

Elkington, Nancy E., editor. RLG Preservation Microfilming Handbook. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, Inc., 1992.

Fox, Lisa. Preservation Microfilming: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996.

Research Libraries Group (RLG). RLG Guidelines for Microfilming to Support Digitization. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2003. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/rlg/presmicrofilm/microsuppl.pdf (PDF).

Reformatting Media Collections

Albright, Gary. "Duplication of Historical Negatives," in Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual. 3rd ed. Andover, MA: NEDCC, 1999. http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/6Reformatting/02HistoricalNegatives.php.

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets. http://www.amianet.org/resources/guides/fact_sheets.pdf. See Fact Sheet 7: Reformatting for Preservation.

The Film Preservation Guide: the Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums. San Francisco, CA: National Film Preservation Foundation, 2004. http://www.filmpreservation.org/. See particularly Chapter 5: Duplication.

"Preservation of Information in Nonpaper Formats," in Preservation: Issues and Planning. Chicago: American Library Association, 2000.

Digital Imaging

Trusted Digital Repositories: Attributes and Responsibilities. An RLG-OCLC Report. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, May 2002. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/past/rlg/trustedrep/repositories.pdf (PDF).

Chapman, Stephen, Paul Conway, and Anne R. Kenney. Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books (DRAFT). Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, n.d. http://www.clir.org/pubs/archives/hybridintro.html#full.

Conway, Paul. Preservation in a Digital World. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, March 1996. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/conway2/.

The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, November 2001. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub103abst.html.

Hazen, Dan, Jeffrey Horrell, and Jan Merrill-Oldham. Selecting Research Collections for Digitization. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, August 1998. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/pub74.html.

Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Rieger. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, 2000.

Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Rieger. "Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial." http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/tutorial/index.html

National Information Standards Organization. A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. 2nd ed. Bethesda, MD: NISO, 2004. http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html.

Sitts, Maxine K. (editor). Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2000. http://www.nedcc.org/resources/digitalhandbook/dman.pdf

Smith, Abby. Strategies for Building Digitized Collections. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, September 2001. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub101abst.html.

Smith, Abby. Why Digitize? Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, February 1999. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub80.html.

Conservation Treatment

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice. Washington, DC: AIC, 1998. http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=1026.

Conservation Procedures section, in Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual, ed. by Sherelyn Ogden. Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 1999. http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets.list.php.

Sturman, Shelley G., Martine Burke, and Doris Hamburg. Guidelines for Selecting a Conservator. Washington, DC: AIC, 1991. Revised 2000, by Shelley G. Sturman. http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=495.

Merrill-Oldham, Jan, and Nancy Carlson Schrock. "The Conservation of General Collections," in Preservation: Issues and Planning. Chicago: ALA, 2000.

Paris, Jan. "Choosing and Working with a Conservator," in Preservation of Library and Archival Materials: A Manual, ed. by Sherelyn Ogden. Andover, MA: Northeast Document Conservation Center, 1999. http://www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets/7Conservation_Procedures/07ChoosingAConservator.php.

Stewart, Eleanore. "Special Collections Conservation," in Preservation: Issues and Planning. Chicago: ALA, 2000.