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Online Presentations

These presentations have been created primarily for members of the Harvard community interested in the theory and practice of the preservation of library and archival materials. Please contact the Weissman Preservation Center's Preservation Program Officer if you would like us to prepare additional online presentations.

Collections Care

• Preservation Primer: Exhibit Preparation, May 2012
  • Exhibit Planning and Layout,
  • Book Cradles,
  • Matting and Framing,
  • Three-Dimensional Objects,
  • Bibliography,

• Optical Scanning Applied to Recorded Sound Preservation and Access, April 2012,

• Preservation Primer: Loaning Special Collections for Exhibition, January 2012
  • Overview and Processing a Request, , Video*,
  • Facilities Reports, , Video*,
  • Insurance Coverage*,
  • Valuation, , Video*,
  • Loan Forms, , Video*,

  * These five presentations are combined into one video named "Presentation Primer: Loaning Special Collections for Exhibition, Day 1"

  • Conservation Review and Preparation for Exhibit, , Video**,
  • Packing and Transit, , Video**,

  ** These two presentations are combined into one video named "Presentation Primer: Loaning Special Collections for Exhibition, Day 2"

• AV Workshop: Housing and Storing AV Materials, December 2010
  • Introduction,
  • Grooved or Incised Media,
  • Magnetic Media,
  • Film,
  • Optical Media,
  • Bibliography
• AV Workshop: Digitizing Audio, March 2011
• Care and Handling of Library Materials: Training for Library Staff, April 2007
• Care and Handling of Library Materials: Guidance for Library Users, January 2008
• Care and Handling of Archival and Special Collections Materials, April 2008
• Care and Handling of Handscrolls, April 2010
  
  
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• Care and Handling of Hanging Scrolls, April 2010
  
  
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Collections Emergencies

• Wet Books in High-Density Book Storage (HDBS): What Really Happens and What We Can Do About It, by Thomas Schneiter, Assistant Director for the Harvard Depository, January 2007

Collections Reformatting

• Digitizing Images, September 2003

Conservation

• Daguerreotypes at Harvard, 1997 exhibit of 16 daguerreotypes
  – created in conjunction with a 1995 NHPRC conservation and reformatting project
• Damage in Special Collections: Risks Revealed
• Treasures at Risk, 1997 exhibit
• Virtual Tour of HCL Collections Conservation Lab

Digital Preservation

• 3Rs of Digital Stewardship, March 2007