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Bibliographies

These bibliographies and resource lists have been created primarily for members of the Harvard community interested in the theory and practice of the preservation of library and archival materials. Consult our Preservation Library for additional resources. Please contact the Weissman Preservation Center's Preservation Program Officer if you would like us to prepare new resource lists.

Preservation and Conservation

• Caring for Personal Collections
• Digital Media (Optical Discs, CDs, DVDs) Care and Handling
• Environmental Control (by James Reilly, Image Permanence Institute)
• Housing and Storing AV Materials
• Magnetic Media (Videotape) Care and Handling
• Modern Book as Artifact
• Monochrome Printmaking
• Motion Picture Film Care and Handling
• Pest Management
• Photograph Preservation: A Short Annotated Bibliography

Collections Emergencies

• Emergency Preparedness
• Emergency Response

Collections Reformatting

• Digitizing Image Collections
• Digitizing Text Collections
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
• Planning Digitization Projects
• Preservation Microfilming and Hybrid Approaches to Reformatting Text
• Quality Control Metrics and Methods for Inspecting Digital Images
• Selection Criteria for Digitizing Library Collections

Digital Preservation

• Digital Preservation: A Brief Resource List

Photographs

• Publications Relating to Harvard Daguerreotype Collections