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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

• 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

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 (in production, June 2007)
• Treasures at Risk, 1997 exhibit
• Virtual Tour of HCL Collections Conservation Lab

Digital Preservation

• 3Rs of Digital Stewardship, March 2007