Selected Preservation Resources

Workshops and Training

• Caring for Digital Materials: Preventing a Digital Dark Age (Heritage Preservation) 5 FREE webinars, April 2-15, 2013.  Advance registration required.
• Digital Preservation Webinars (ASERL) 4 FREE webinars, April 2-30, 2013.  Advance registration required. 
• Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments - Series II (IPI) 9 FREE webinars, January-September 2013.  Advance registration required.  You can view the recording and download the powerpoint for the webinars after the live broadcast.
• Preservation 101 (NEDCC)
• Digital Preservation Magagement tutorial (Cornell/ ICPSR)
• RAP Member Workshops

Emergency Planning and Response

• Heritage Emergency National Task Force (Heritage Preservation)
• Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (Library of Congress)
• Museum Handbook Part 1 Chapter 10:  Emergency Planning (National Park Service)
• Emergency Drying Procedures for Water Damaged Collections (LOC)

Electronic Records and Digital Preservation

• Open Archival Information System (OAIS) Reference Model
• The International Research of Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems (InterPARES)
• Digital Preservation videos from around the web, gathered by the Library of Congress (LOC)
• Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media (PARADIGM) Project
• Geospatial Data Preservation Resource Center
• Practical E-Records (Chris Prom's blog)
• futureArch (traditional archives + digital archives at the Bodleian Library blog)

Care of Books and Paper

• Library of Congress (LOC) Conservation Division, Collections Care
• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Preservation Department
• Northeast Document Conservation Center Preservation Leaflets
  

Audio-Visual Materials

• Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) online conference recordings
• National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) film preservation guide
• Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) committee resources
• Image Permanence Institute (IPI)
  

Exhibits

• ANSI/NISO Z39.79-2001, "Environmental Conditions for Exhibiting Library and Archives Materials"
• Exhibit Mounting Variations For Objects On Paper (NPS)
• Polyester Film Book Supports (NPS)
• Making Mounting Corners for Photographs and Paper Objects (NPS)
• Preservation Guidelines for Matting and Framing (LOC)
• Limiting Light Damage from Display/Exhibition (LOC)

Conservation and Finding a Conservator

• American Institute for Conservation (AIC)
• Regional Alliance for Preservation (RAP)

Other Professional Preservation Groups and Departments

• ALA - Preservation and Reformatting
• British Library, Preservation Advisory Centre
• California Preservation Foundation
• Cornell University Library Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance
• The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI)
• Heritage Preservation
• Library of Congress, Preservation Directorate

Bibliographies

• Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography (maintained by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.)
• Selected Readings in Preservation (1995-2002)
• Selected Readings in Preservation (2009-2011)

Finding Grants

• Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives and Museums
• Search Grants.gov

Career Opportunities

• California Academic & Research Libraries (CARL) Jobs
• Jobs at NARA
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Jobs
• SAA Career Center