Conservation and Preservation Resources 

Local and Regional Conservation Referral List

• Preservation at Syracuse University Library: Presented to IST 600, July 21 & 23, 2009.

• Archival 101: Answers to questions concerning selecting the most appropriate materials to house your collections, different storage options, terminology found in various catalogs, and how to get the best deal from vendors. Last presented to CLRC in March of 2006.
• Disaster Planning: Salvaging books and other paper-based materials after a water emergency. See also the Library's "Disaster Recovery" pages.
• Digitization Project Management Basics: Selection criteria, size issues, in-house or outsourcing.
• Digital Preservation: An historical perspective and overview. Presented to IST676 March 26, 2009.
• The Preserving of Gifts and Donors: A presentation to the Central New York Library Resource Council (CLRC) & Documentary Heritage Program (DHP) at Fayetteville Free Library, April 15, 2009. The workshop dealt with accepting gifts to collections and the impact of the implications of preservation and conservation concerns with those items.
• Special Formats, Innovative Preservation Storage Solutions: A Presentation to the New York Archives Conference held at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY on June 4, 2009. The presentation dealt with the tube storage system developed for architectural and other oversized drawings at Syracuse. See also: Storage of Architectural Materials at the Syracuse University Library.

Publications:

• CLRC Calendar: Images from the CLRC's 2005 calendar designed by Donia Conn to raise awareness of the myriad of preservation issues faced by libraries and other cultural repositories.
• Storage of Architectural Materials at the Syracuse University Library: Article published in the Book and Paper Group Annual, 2003, of the American Institute of Conservation.