Preservation Resource Links
- Bibliographies & Indexes: A list of links to resources collected by professional preservation organizations
- Books of Fiction about Conservation
- Books of Fiction about Books for Book Groups
- Caring for Your Artifacts: The Henry Ford.
- Caring for Your Treasures: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works: Guidance for care of common categories of collections, printable as handsome two-sided 8.5 x 11" broadsides.
- Conservation Online
- Conserve O Grams: National Park Service: Leaflets organized by topic and category of material, covering care of all types of collection, with information useful for both individuals and institutions.
- Disaster Recovery: Information for before and after a disaster has damaged precious collections.
- Guide to Online Resources: Care for Collections and Connecting to Collections: The Bookshelf: Institute of Museum and Library Services: Links to online resources, grouped by category, and a bibliography of collections care titles that have been distributed as a bookshelf to more than 2,500 local libraries and museums—check with those in your community or see the web site. Includes hard-to-find categories like audio-visual and digital materials.
- Preservation for Children: Tools to help children understand the importance of preservation.
- Preservation Leaflets: Northeast Document Conservation Center: Covering a range of topics from the storage environment to care of photographs to planning and prioritizing for preservation.
- Preserve Your Family Treasures: Minnesota Historical Society: Resources cover a range of topics from oral history to organizing family papers to care of photographs.
- Preparing, Protecting, Preserving Family Treasures and Caring for Your Collections: Library of Congress: Simple instructions and links to more comprehensive information, grouped by topic and category of material, for preparing, protecting, and preserving many types of collections.
- Preservation 101: Northeast Document Conservation Center.
- PW Fact Sheet: More facts that discusses how items become damaged and simple steps to keep them safe.
- Preserving Your Memories: Organized by material type, these web sites, books, and other sources give useful information on caring for any kind of collection.
- Resources in Other Languages: Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, and Arabic resources for spreading the preservation message.
- Saving Your Treasures: NET Television, Saving Nebraska’s Treasures: Videos and other resources for preserving a wide variety of materials and collectibles.
- Shocking Statistics: Reasons for Preservation Week: Facts that illustrate the need for national preservation awareness.
- Taking Care: Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute.
- Videos: Video resources depict ways and reasons to preserve collections.
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Steve Berry
2012–2013 National Spokesperson
Keynote speaker at Smithsonian Institution's Preservation Matters! event
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