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ILS 650

Preservation of Library Materials


COURSE DESCRIPTION

The fundamentals of materials preservation in libraries, museums and archival institutions. Preservation continuing education, disaster recovery and planning, reformatting and digitization projects are explored. Prerequisites: ILS 501 and 503.


COURSE OBJECTIVES/STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • get the knowledge on prevention of deterioration and destruction of various materials collected in libraries, museums, and historical society;
  • identify preservation methods used for disaster planning and recovery in cultural institutions;
  • identify preservation and conservation related continuing education workshops and programs, designed for staff in libraries, museums and archival societies
  • analyze preserving projects and reformatting plans designed for preservation of collections in cultural institutions
  • plan and design preservation projects for treatment of special library materials in need of preservation 

 

COURSE OUTLINE

I.         Introduction
II.        Conservation and Preservation: Historical Perspectives
III.       Physical Properties of Library Materials
IV.        Determination and Destruction Problems
V.         Materials Storage and Preventive Maintenance
VI.       Book Preservation and Restoration (and Workshop)
VII.      Document and Manuscript Preservation and Restoration (and Workshop)
VIII.     Conservation of Photographic Materials
IX.       Conservation of Sound Recordings
X.        Conservation of Digital Materials
XI.       Administration and Management for Preservation and Conservation
XII.      Disaster Planning
XIII.     Trends in Conservation and Preservation 

 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Specific course requirements and assignments are described in the course syllabus. Course assignments allow students to demonstrate achievement of stated student learning outcomes for this course.

Course Requirements and Evaluation
 
1.   Extensive reading and writing
2.   Library Disaster and Recovery Case studies          
3.   Review of Preservation and conservation education workshops
4.   Term Projects for Preservation Policy or Disaster Planning              
5.   Reading and sharing individual papers and giving comments


SUGGESTED TEXTS / TEXTS USED IN THE PAST

1.     Balloffet, Nelly and Jenny Hille. Preservation and Conservation for Libraries and Archives. (Chicago: American Library Association, 2005)
 
2. Preservation; Issues and Planning. Edited by Paul N. Banks and Roberta Pilette
(Chicago: American  Library Association, 2000).

Internet Resources

1.     Library Preservation and Conservation Tutorial. Collaborative project of the     Council on Library and Information Resources and Cornell University Library.          

http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/librarypreservation/meolda/index.html 

2.     The Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials. By Gilles St-Laurent.

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/st-laurent/care.html 

3.     National Media Lab. Disaster recovery

Http://www.nml.org/publications/presentations/disasterrecovery/ 

4.     Conservation Online; Resources for Conservation Professionals.Preservation Department of Stanford University.

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/ 

5.     Digital Preservation Tutorial. Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance. Cornell University.

http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/ 

6.     IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (PAC)

http://www.ifla.org/VI/4/pac.htm    

 

Approved by the ILS Department Curriculum Committee and Faculty, Spring 2009.