Preservation and archiving: Edited by McIntosh, Joyce challenges and solutions /

1 Historical Air Photo Digitization Project University of Waterloo Map Library --2 Building Preservation Partnerships: The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program --3 Archon: A Unified Information Storage and Retrieval System for Lone Archivists, Special Collections Librarians and Curators --4 Capitalize on Collections Care --5 Canadiana.org: One of Canada's Oldest and Newest Digitization Initiatives --6 Preservation Activities at the Library of Congress Project Summary --7 Digital Preservation and Permanent Access to Scientific Information: The State of the Practice --9 Self-Archiving to Institutional Repositories Is Improved by Assisted and Mandated Deposit; Disciplinary Culture Is not a Factor --9 Space Technology for Book Preservation --10 Digital Archiving of Primary Research Data --11 Care and Security of Rare Books --12 Salvaging Acidic or Damaged Museum Accession Books --13 Preserving Works on Paper: Manuscripts, Drawings, Prints, Posters, Maps, Documents --14 The Deterioration and Preservation of Paper: Some Essential Facts --15 Preserving Newspapers--16 Preservation of Scrapbooks and Albums--17 Emergency Salvage of Flood Damaged Family Papers--18 Salvage of Water Damaged Library Materials --19 Mold and Mildew: Prevention of Microorganism Growth In Museum Collections--20 Effect of Some Deacidification Agents on Copper-Catalyzed Degradation of Paper--21 The Jigsaw Puzzle of Digital Preservation-An Overview--22 Curating Research: e-Merging New Roles and Responsibilities in the European Landscape (Conference Report) --23 Taking Care of Digital Collections and Data: `Curation' and Organisational Choices for Research Libraries

Covers the many issues involved in preserving historical documents and archiving important materials. This book addresses digitization, storage and retrieval systems, collection security issues, preservation of printed materials, salvaging damaged and jeopardized materials, and more