As described on the Northeast Document Conservation Center's website, "This free online resource provides a basic introduction to the concepts and standards used to build an effective preservation program, and includes a discussion of preservation policies, building and environment, care and handling of collection materials, reformatting, emergency preparedness, and conservation practices."
The Preservation Department has numerous videos that explain various repair techniques and other aspects of preservation. These repairs are not suitable for rare or valuable items, but are great for general collection books. Our most popular video, with over 826 thousand views, is on Wet Book Rescue! Speaking of water...NEVER SNIFF A MOLDY BOOK! (Health hazard)
Other sources of preservation and conservation videos:
The Metadata and collections section of the American Library Association's CORE division offers over 40 excellent videos on preservation, covering topics such as:
The Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (DHPSNY) guides other organizations in collection, preservation, and access to archival and library research material according to professional practices and standards. There are many webinars available, including:
The British Library's conservation experts have a video series on best practices for handling rolled or folded items, etc. Scroll down the page to the "In the Conservation Studio" section.
The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation's Connecting to Collections Care (C2CC) program, has a large collection of archived webinars. Scroll down each item to find a link to the YouTube video; sometimes the link is labeled as for closed captions. Some are available only as audio recordings.
The Institute of Conservation (ICON), a UK-based group, offers a wide variety of resources, including webinars on a variety of materials. Topics include Japanese paper and condition assessment from a distance.
The Conservation Division at the Library of Congress has "Highlights" videos documenting completed projects by trained conservators that detail their process.
Looking to learn more about old books in general? A good place to start is a short guide that is available online from the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. The guide provides very general information on rare, valuable, and old books. The guide also covers topics such as selling, donating, and insuring books.
This repair guide for books from the circulating collections was written by Marianne Hanley, Preservation Librarian, and was designed as a reference for student employees in the Preservation Lab.
Dartmouth College has a book repair manual including videos covers materials and techniques for a wide range of repairs. Information on parts of a book, grain direction, corner consolidation and using Japanese paper are among the topics included.
From the Alaska State Library comes a book repair manual by Artemis BonaDea. This 200 page manual includes details on such topics as finding the grain of paper, tying weaver's knots, working with Japanese paper, hinging in pages, sewing, box construction and more.