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Steve Hobaica, Patrick Loughney, Martha Anderson, and the conservators and curators responsible for the highlighted collections. Additional special thanks also go to Library collaborators Dr. Carl Haber, Mark Roosa, James Reilly, NIST, Toth Associates, Matija Strlic and May Cassar, CLIR and the Mellon Foundation. Notes 1 For more on the Heritage Health Index, see: http://www.heritagepreservation.org/ hhi/ 2 The topic of survey techniques is not covered in this paper, but for information on preservation priority surveys to compare and group collection needs for conservation treatment and general care, and random sampling surveys to determine resource allocations for vast and diverse collections, as well as item level surveys, see: Van der Reyden, D., H. Tennison, F. W. Tsai, and M. Parish. “An ’Angel Project’ of Dinosaur Proportions.” Book and Paper Group Annual 15 (1996): 145–160. http://cool.conservation-us.org/ coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v15/bp15-18.html 3 To address educational challenges, a symposium funded by the Getty and organized by the Library of Congress on Preservation Education in the 21st Century, published a report available at: http:// www.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/symposia/preseduc.html 4 For an example of a national scientific research agenda addressing the needs of collections, see: http://www.loc.gov/preservation/scientists/ 5 For more on return-on-investment science-based resources for preservation, see: Van der Reyden, D. “The Science- Based Fight Against ‘Inherent Vice.’” International Preservation News, 50 (2010): 5-10. [PDF: 2.2 MB / 44 p. (entire issue)] http://www.ifla.org/files/pac/ipn/50- may-2010.pdf 6 See article by the Washington Post’s Marc Kaufman on “Jefferson changed ‘subjects’ to ‘citizens’ in Declaration of Independence”, on July 3, 2010 at http://www. washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ article/2010/07/02/AR2010070205525.html 7 See France, F. “Best Practice and Standards in Environmental Preservation for Cultural Heritage Institutions: Goals, Knowledge, Gaps”, British Library Conference: Advances in Paper Conservation Research, 23-24th March 2009, at http:// www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/ccare/ events/France.pdf. 8 For more on the chemistry of degradation, see: Van der Reyden, D. “Recent Scientific Research in Paper Conservation.” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 31, no. 1 (1992): 117–139. http://cool.conservation-us.org/jaic/articles/jaic31-01-014_indx.html 9 For more information on CLASS, see http://www.loc.gov/preservation/scientists/projects/class.html 10 For this and other innovations from IPI, see https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/ 11 For more on Fort Meade, see http://www. loc.gov/preservation/resources/misc/fortmeade.pdf 12 or more on Mo-I-Rana, see Myrbakk, G. “Mountain Vaults: a thousand years perspective” at http://www.ifla.queenslibrary.org/iv/ifla71/papers/153e-Myrbakk. pdf 13 For more on Boston Spa and other environmental advances, see France, F. “Best Practice and Standards in Environmental Preservation for Cultural Heritage Institutions: Goals, Knowledge, Gaps”, British Library Conference: Advances in Paper Conservation Research, 23-24th March 2009, at http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/ stratpolprog/ccare/events/France.pdf. For more on trends in storage, see Shenton, H. “The future shape of collection storage” at http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/ccare/pubs/2004/HShentonNPO%20 Conf2004.pdf. 14 For more on anoxic storage and pest control, see: Maekawa, S. and K. Elbert. The Use of Oxygen-Free Environments in the Control of Museum Insect Pests; Tools for Conservation, The Getty Institute, 2003. 15 For more on anoxic visual storage systems, see: http://www.loc.gov/preservation/scientists/projects/anoxic_cases. html. For more on exhibit control measures, see: Van der Reyden, D. “Displays: The Role of Preservation in Exhibitions at the Library of Congress.” In Proceedings of the International Symposium, The 3–D’s of Preservation: Disasters, Displays, Digitization. Edited by Corine Koch, 71–96. International Preservation Issues, no. 7. Paris: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation, 2006. [PDF: 1.23 MB / 144 p.] http://archive.ifla.org/VI/4/news/ipi7-en. pdf# 16 For more on visual storage, as seen at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art, see http://americanart.si.edu/visit/about/ architecture/luce/ ICOM-CC Graphic Documents Working Group Interim Meeting | Vienna 17 – 19 April 2013 12
17 For more on containerization strategies, see: Van der Reyden, D. “Paper Documents.” In Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach. Edited by C.L. Rose, C.A. Hawks, and H.H. Genoway, 327–354. Pittsburgh, PA.: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 1995. [PDF: 473 KB / 41 p.] http://www.si.edu/mci/downloads/ RELACT/paper_documents.pdf 18 For more on this AV center, see http:// www.loc.gov/avconservation/ 19 or more on IRENE, see: http://www.loc. gov/preservation/scientists/projects/imaging_audio.html 20 For more on this development, see http:// www.loc.gov/preservation/scientists/projects/sticky_shed.html 21 http://www.loc.gov/preservation/scientists/projects/cd_longevity.html, http:// www.loc.gov/preservation/scientists/projects/cd-r_dvd-r_rw_longevity.html 22 For more on the possible use of DNA as a storage medium, see: Van der Reyden, D. “Preservation in the Digital Age: A Discussion about Conservation in Libraries and Archives: Dialogue with Jeffrey Levin and James Druzik.” Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter 22, no 3 (2007): 10–15. http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/newsletters/22_3/dialogue.html, and Heaven, Douglas. Books and JavaScript stored in DNA molecules, August 16, 2012, at http://www.newscientist.com/ article/dn22190-books-and-javascriptstored-in-dna-molecules.html 23 http://www.loc.gov/ndnp/ 24 http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/ preservation.html 25 http://www.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/intern/index.html 26 For more on UCL’s Heritage Science Program, see http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/ graduate/csh/learn/mres-heritage-science 27 For more on the role of computer-simulation in conservation training, see: Leuschke, R., R. Donlin, M. Claus, M. Nugent, D. van der Reyden, and B. Hannaford. “Haptic Characteristics of Document Conservation Tasks.” In Proceedings 2008 Haptics Symposium, 383–386. Reno NV: 2008. [PDF: 890 KB / 6 p.] http:// brl.ee.washington.edu/BRL_Pubs/Pdfs/ Rep211.pdf 28 For more on the Library of Congress Preservation Directorate, see: Van der Reyden, D. “The Preservation Directorate at 40.” Library of Congress Information Bulletin 66, no. 5 (2007): 95–99. http:// www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0705/directorate. html. For more on future strategies for document collections, see: Van der Reyden, D. “Future Directions in the Preservation of Document Collections (Or: Coming of Age in the Digital Era while Avoiding a Preservation Mid–life Crisis).” AIC News 32, no. 6 (2007): 1. [PDF: 658 KB / 24 p.] http://www.conservation-us.org/_ data/n_0001/resources/live/07_nov_aicnews.pdf Dianne Lee van der Reyden Former Director for Preservation, Visiting Scholar at the Library of Congress, dvanderreyden@gmail.com ICOM-CC Graphic Documents Working Group Interim Meeting | Vienna 17 – 19 April 2013 13
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Page 34 and 35: Verdigris I: Compromises in Conserv
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Page 38 and 39: Integrated Modelling: The Demograph
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Page 42 and 43: Characterisation of Historical Pape
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Page 46 and 47: Study of Phytate Chelating Treatmen
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2. Methods An interdisciplinary met
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Fig. 4: Dyed endpaper pasted at the
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Preservation of Architectural Drawi
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Notes 1 According Salvador Muñoz V
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the curators in review of the treat
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Authors Xing Kung Liao Conservator
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Fig. 2: Our Railroad Workers and th
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The Restoration of Cartoons at the
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To Remove or Retain? - Extensive In
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Fig. 4 repeated applications until
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The Migration of Hydroxy Propyl Cel
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Ethical Considerations Concerning t
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Conservation of a Book of Hours fro
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Microorganisms in Books - First Res
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