Conservation & Preservation

Institutions

• Northeast Document Conservation Center (see also NEDCC Leaflets)
• Getty Conservation Institute
• The American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works
• Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
• National Film Preservation Foundation
• Conservation OnLine (COOL)
• Heritage Preservation
• Image Permanence Institute
• Institute of Historic Building Conservation

Paper

• National Archives: Archival Formats
• Preserving Newspapers from LOC
• Humidification and flattening of documents from Missouri Secretary of State

Audio-Visual Preservation

• National Archives: Archival Formats
• Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets from AMIA (the Association of Moving Image Archivists)
• Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs (Published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Dept. of Commerce)

Historic Buildings

• Institute of Historic Building Conservation Bibliography
• National Park Service Preservation Briefs
• Historic New England Directory of Historic Sites
• Getty Conference Papers on Alternative Climate Controls for Historic Buildings (scroll down to the bottom of the page for PDFs of the discussion papers)
• Managing the preservation of library and archive collections in historic buildings (From Britain’s National Preservation Office)
• The Secretary of the Interior’s Standards For the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring, & Reconstructing Historic Buildings. (From the National Park Service)