Videos on Preservation

• How to Create Preservation Enclosures: (from Archival Products) http://www.archival.com/video_overview.html
• How to Sew Pamphlet and Music Binders: (from Archival Products) http://www.archival.com/video_spinewrap.html
• How to Use Four Flap Enclosures: (from Archival Products) http://www.archival.com/video_fourflap.html
• Collection Care Videos: British Library: A series of short videos on the best ways to handle books, folded items, rolled items, archival material, prints, drawings, photographs, and other formats: www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/ccare/collectioncarevideos/index.html
• The FUNdamentals of Book Care in 5 Easy Lessons: George Mason University Libraries: A lighthearted reminder to students to take care of printed materials they use in the library. Although this YouTube video was produced for college students, it would be appropriate for high school and junior high students: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX1Eiz7rLwg
• Coping with Water Damage and Save Family Treasures from Soot: Heritage Preservation/Heritage Emergency National Task Force: "Coping with Water Damage" provides step-by step guidance on dealing with water damage in museums, libraries and archives with practical tips that may be of value to the layperson for use at home. "Save Family Treasures from Soot" offers tips for cleaning up family heirlooms that survive a fire: www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/WaterSegmentFG.HTM  and www.heritagepreservation.org/PROGRAMS/TFsoot.HTM
• Preservation Faux Pas: Kansas State University Library: A short, amusing review of “do’s and don’ts” to keep in mind when using print materials, done in a silent movie style: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfegfUyoxQc
• Cockroach Encounters of the Third Kind!: James Madison University Libraries: Giant cockroaches invade the JMU library, drawn by food scraps left by students. At the end students are urged to “Pack it in—Pack it out!”: www.lib.jmu.edu/media/preservationvideo.aspx
• Conserving Early Modern Books: Washington State University Libraries: A nine-minute walkthrough the conservation processes used to restore rare books that had been damaged by earlier improper repairs: www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/video/preservation_grant.html
• Saving Your Treasures and more videos at Nebraska's Treasures: NET Television, Saving Nebraska’s Treasures: Containing interviews with conservators and visits to various conservation labs, this informative 56-minute long video gives a good overview of the need for conservation with a variety of artifacts: www.netnebraska.org/extras/treasures/videos/snt.asx
• Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation and Team Digital Preservation and the Aeroplane Disaster: Digital Preservation Europe: Very amusing short videos in which Digital Man outwits Team Chaos through the clever and necessary use of: Trusted Digital Repositories, metadata, refreshing storage media, and data migration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbBa6Oam7-w,  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKnsZZzuUr4&feature=channel_page and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yun9hkPPF9M&feature=channel
• Murder in the Stacks: Sherlock Holmes deduces that a type of murder is being committed in libraries everyday : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phyFPJD-CGs 

Preservation Resources

• Select Preservation Resources: statistics | fact sheets | multilingual resources
• Additional Preservation Resources: additional links to information on various preservation topics
• Preservation Awareness Stories: social networking preservation | coal mining heritage | your stories