Preservation Resources

UI Circulating Collection Repair Manual

Preservation Information

Preparing, Protecting, Preserving Family Treasures

Conservation OnLine

Disaster Response

Disaster Recovery Response Directory

Flood Recovery Booklet

Mold

• Chlorine Dioxide: A Treatment for Mold in Libraries. Archival Products News, Volme 10, No. 3.
  
• Emergency Salvage of Moldy Books and Paper. Technical Leaflet from Northeast Document Conservation Center.
  
• Guidelines on Assessment and Remediation of Fungi in Indoor Environments. New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene/Bureau of Environmental & Occupational Disease Epidemiology.
  
• Invasion of the Giant Spore, by Sandra Nyberg. Leaflet from SOLINET Preservation Program.
  
• Managing a Mold Invasion: Guidelines for Disaster Response, by Lois Olcott Price. Leaflet from Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts.
  
• Mold as a Threat to Human Health. Abbey Newsletter, October 1994.
  
• A New Approach to Treating Fungus in Small Libraries, by William R. Chamberlain. Abbey Newsletter, November 1991.
  
  

Film/Video/Audio Preservation

• Conservation Online, Preservation of Audio Materials
  
• Film Forever
  
• Library of Congress, Motion Picture Film Preservation
  
• National Film Preservation Foundation
  
• Texas Commission on the Arts, Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide
  
• Vidipax

Preservation Department Suppliers

Heckman Bindery (binding)

Preservation Technologies (book alkalization)

LBS - Library Binding Services (materials supplier)

Articles

Jutta Reed-Scott 1999. "Preserving Research Collections: A Collaboration

between Librarians and Scholars."

Useful Links

Iowa Conservation & Preservation Consortium

University of Iowa Collections Coalition