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introduction

Session 1: Introduction to Preservation

What is Preservation?
Collection Management
Assessing Collections
Preparing a Preservation Plan
Additional Activities

Session 2: The Building and Environment

Basic Concepts
General Building Issues
The Storage Environment
Monitoring the Environment
Controlling the Environment
Pest Management
Mold Protection
Fire Protection and Security
Additional Activities

Session 3: caring for Collections

Storage Furniture
Storage Enclosures
Collection Maintenance
Conservation Treatment
Exhibits
Additional Activities

Session 4: caring for Paper Collections

Papermaking
Inherent Vice: Materials
Inherent Vice: Structures
External Factors
Handling Collections
Library Binding
Storing Paper Collections
Evaluating Your Collections
Additional Activities

Session 5: care and handling of photographs

Inherent Vice: Photographic Prints
Inherent Vice: Glass Supports
Inherent Vice: Film Supports
Storing Photograph Collections
Identifying Your Collections
Evaluating Your Collections
Reformatting Your Collections
Additional Activities

Session 6: Media Collections

Identifying Your Collections
Storage and Handling of Media Collections
Inherent Vice: Early Sound Recordings
Inherent Vice: Magnetic Media
Inherent Vice: Optical Media
Inherent Vice: Computer Media
Evaluating Your Collections
Conservation Treatment for Media Collections
Additional Activities

Session 7: Reformatting, Digitization, and digital preservation

Preservation Microfilming
Paper Reproductions
Reformatting Media Collections
Digitization
Born Digital Collections
Managing Reformatting and Digitization
Additional Activities
Digital Preservation
Fair Use & Copyright

Session 8: emergency preparedness

Risk Assessment
Preventing/Mitigating Disaster
Preparing for Disaster
Responding to Disaster
Recovering from Disaster
Preparing a Disaster Plan
Additional Activities

Session 9: Building a Preservation Program

Preservation Planning
Program Management
Selection for Preservation
Program Funding
Education and Training
Additional Activities

SESSION 10: Office hours and flex time
Final Assignments

Additional Resources
Credits
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