Article on conservation methods in research libraries

I'd like to draw your attention to a recently published article that
may be of interest:

    Baker, Whitney, and Liz Dube. 2010.
    Identifying standard practices in research library book
    conservation.  Library Resources and Technical Services  54(1):
    21-39.

        <URL:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5818>

Based on a 2007 survey of book conservation practitioners, the paper
describes the field's evolution over the past fifty years and
identifies book conservation techniques the survey found to be
routinely, moderately, or rarely employed in U.S. research
libraries. The authors compare treatment techniques employed for
special collections with those used for general collections.

Beth Doyle
Collections Conservator
Duke Univ. Libraries


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