Archiving, preservation and digitization Books

Book SynopsisThis new and extensively revised second edition offers an international perspective on archives management, providing authoritative guidance relevant to collections-based repositories and to organizations responsible for managing their own institutional archives. Written in clear language with lively examples, Archives: Principles and practices introduces core archival concepts, explains best-practice approaches and discusses the central activities that archivists need to know to ensure the documentary materials in their charge are cared for as effectively as possible. Topics addressed include: core archival principles and concepts archival history and the evolution of archival theories the nature and diversity of archival materials and institutions the responsibilities and duties of the archivist issues in the management of archival institutions the challenges of balancing access and privacy in archival service best practice principles and strategic approaches to central archival tasks such as acquisition, preservation, reference and access detailed comparison of custodial, fonds-oriented approaches and post-custodial, functional approaches to arrangement and description. Discussion of digital archives is woven throughout the book, including consideration of the changing role of the archivist in the digital age. In recasting her book to address the impact of digital technologies on records and archives, Millar offers us an archival manual for the twenty-first century. This book will be essential reading for archival practitioners, archival studies students and professors, librarians, museum curators, local authorities, small governments, public libraries, community museums, corporations, associations and other agencies with archival responsibility.Trade ReviewAn absolutely indispensable instructional guide and manual, Archives: Principles and Practices is unreservedly recommended for community, academic, governmental, and corporate Library Science collections and supplemental studies lists. * - Midwest Book Review *Archives is divided into theoretical and operational sections. Millar ably tackles topics such as the concept, nature, history, acquisition, preservation, and future of archives. Including a helpful list of resources for further reading and a glossary of archive-related terms, this is a well-rounded book. Infused with the right amount of humor, Millar has authored a highly readable text for those interested in an overview of the world of archives. -- Jim Frutchey * Booklist *'Although differing goals and understandings of the archival profession are in many ways a sign of its vibrancy and strength, books such as Archives: Principles and Practices sound a welcome reminder to examine institutional traditions and to tie those traditions to the bedrock values that should unite all keepers of the cultural record. While the first edition succeeded to some extent, the second edition deserves recognition as one of the best introductory texts available today.'- Nathan Saunders, Associate Director for Library Specialized Collections, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Archival Issues * Archival Issues *Table of ContentsPART I: Principles 1. What are archives? 2. An overview of archival theories and concepts 3. The nature of archives 4. The uses of archives 5. Types of archival institution 6. Archival service as a public trust 7. Balancing access and privacy PART 2: Practices 8. Establishing the archival institution 9. Appraising and acquiring archives 10. Preserving archives 11. Arranging and describing archives 12. Making archives available 13. Providing online access and reference Conclusion To learn more Journal literature National and state institutions Professional associations Additional reading Glossary of terms

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Book SynopsisAs organisations across the globe commit to digital transformation, well-managed taxonomies are more critical than ever in supporting a wide range of business applications. Amidst growing industry uptake of controlled vocabularies, ontologies and knowledge graphs, taxonomists are at the forefront of helping organisations manage content and data of unprecedented breadth, depth and variety. Taxonomies: Practical Approaches to Developing and Managing Vocabularies for Digital Information is a comprehensive guide to building, implementing and using taxonomies. Featuring contributions and case examples from some of the world’s leading experts, the book supports professional development through practical advice and real-world case studies. Readers will learn best practice for the everyday realities of working with stakeholders, sponsors and systems to ensure that taxonomies remain useful and relevant. Addressing all the key stages of the process of building and implementing a taxonomy, including scoping, user testing and validation, and the creation of governance processes, the book is invaluable for the optimisation of systems for users and stakeholders alike. Trade Review"It is difficult to think of a business case for not investing in this book." -- Martin White * Intranet Focus *"This goldmine of information can be read cover to cover or used as a dip-in-and-out reference book, a refresher for seasoned taxonomists or a student textbook. Highly recommended." * Information Professional *Table of ContentsForewordHeather HeddenIntroductionHelen LippellPart 1 Getting Started1 Business Buy-in and ScopingMaura Moran2 Choosing Taxonomy SoftwareJoyce van AaltenPart 2 Building Taxonomies3 Taxonomy Structuring and Scaling: A Standardised ApproachJonathan Engel4 The Diversity of Terms: Respecting Culture and Avoiding BiasBharat Dayal Sharma5 Relationships, Hierarchies and SemanticsBob Kasenchak6 User Testing and ValidationTom Alexander7 Taxonomy and Vocabulary InteroperabilityYonah Levenson8 Everything that Will Go Wrong in your Taxonomy ProjectEd ValdPart 3 Applications9 Enterprise SearchMichele Jenkins10 Taxonomy and Digital Asset ManagementSara James and Jeremy Bright11 Powering Structured Content with TaxonomiesRahel Anne Bailie12 Information Architecture and E-commerceMargaret HanleyPart 4 Business Adoption13 Implementing Taxonomies and Metadata: Lessons from a Busy NewsroomAnnette Feldman14 Taxonomy GovernanceCynthia Knowles15 Taxonomy MaintenanceHelen Challinor16 The Taxonomist’s Role in a Development TeamJo KentAppendix A: Metadata Template to Capture Taxonomy Term DiversityBharat Dayal SharmaAppendix B: Semantics: Some Basic Ontological PrinciplesBob KasenchakAppendix C: Metadata Model TemplateYonah LevensonGlossaryBob Kasenchak and Helen Lippell

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Book SynopsisThis is a study of the politics, the commerce, and the aesthetics of heritage culture in the shape of authors'' manuscripts. Draft or working manuscripts survive in quantity from the eighteenth century when, with the rise of print, readers learnt to value ''the hand'' as an index of individuality and the blotted page, criss-crossed by deletion and revision, as a sign of genius. Since then, collectors have fought over manuscripts, libraries have curated them, the rich have stashed them away in investment portfolios, students have squeezed meaning from them, and we have all stared at them behind exhibition glass. Why do we trade them, conserve them, and covet them? Most, after all, are just the stuff left over after the novel or book of poetry goes into print. Poised on the boundary where precious treasure becomes abject waste, litter, and mess, modern literary manuscripts hover between riches and rubbish.In a series of case studies, this book explores manuscript''s expressive agency andTrade ReviewSutherland...amply shows the variety of ways in which manuscripts acquired new significance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. * Rachael Scarborough King, Modern Philosophy *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Dealing with the Leftovers 2: Samuel Johnson and the Origins of Writing 3: 'this warm scribe my hand': The Autograph Craze 4: Nothing Wasted: Frances Burney's Fiction Manuscripts 5: Whose Property? Walter Scott's Manuscripts 6: Jane Austen Fragment Artist Afterword

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Book SynopsisThe Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition is a comprehensive desk reference providing the essential principles, skills, and knowledge to manage special collections in any setting and covering all aspects of special collections work: preservation; developing collections; understanding objects; emergency planning; security; legal and ethical concerns; cataloguing; digitisation; marketing; outreach; teaching; impact; advocacy, and fundraising. This new edition has been revised and updated to incorporate the many developments in the field, reflecting the growth and dynamism of the sector and the complexity of the environment in which we operate. This will include: Enriched and updated guidance on decolonising collections management and all other elements of special collections work working towards zero-carbon buildings, preservation, and other aspects of special collections work lessons/impact of Covid-19: managing remote access by staff and users, emergency planning, health and safety, risk assessments new legislation affecting special collections, notably in the UK the Data Protection Act 2018 new and revised standards, such as the new British Standards relating to collections care, BS EN 16893 and BS 4971, which replace PD5454 new and emerging technologies in collections discovery, digitisation, digital resource and digital libraries, and how to manage them and build capacity. Particular attention will be paid to the implications of the ‘digital shift’ and the place of special collections in online and hybrid learning. Comprehensive and written in a highly accessible manner, The Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition will be an essential resource for staff working with special collections in a wide range of settings, including academia, public libraries, religious organisations, museums, and at scales from solo librarians to ‘nationals’. Trade Review'The Special Collections Handbook, third edition by experienced special collections librarian Alison Cullingford is an ideal and unreservedly recommended textbook for college and university Library Science curriculums and instructional reference collections, as well as an essential instructional resource for the personal and professional reading lists of both novice and experienced librarians, including special collection custodians and stewards.' * The Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsPart 1. Discovering collections1 Understanding objects in Special CollectionsPart 2. Collections management2 The care of Special Collections3 Emergency planning for Special Collections4 Acquiring and developing Special Collections5 Cataloguing, description and metadata in Special Collections6 Digitization and digital libraries in Special CollectionsPart 3. Managing public access7 Legal and ethical issues in Special Collections8 User services in Special Collections9 Marketing and communications in Special Collections10 Widening access to Special Collections11 Using Special Collections in educationPart 4. Governance and resources for Special Collections12 Special Collections spaces13 Organizational resources for Special Collections: people14 Influencing and fund-raising for Special CollectionsAppendix A The Special Collections reference shelfAppendix B Skills for your Special Collections careerAppendix C Latin and palaeography

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Book SynopsisA sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millenniaTrade ReviewEcocritical Book Award Finalist, sponsored by ASLE“This book of remarkable conception—from bioarcheology to contemporary book art, across many millennia and cultures—surpasses previous routine responses to reveal parchment as a deep archive of both human and animal history.”—Daniel Wakelin, University of Oxford“On Parchment has great range: it spans millennia, treats Jewish, Muslim, and Christian literatures, and matches stories of a Dun Cow with studies of its distant relatives’ DNA. This book is erudite and provoking by turns; an enriching, unsettling, and necessary challenge to established ideas about the literary past.”—Alexandra Gillespie, University of Toronto“In an epic sweep, Bruce Holsinger examines both the medieval fascination with this precious material and the modern fixation. On Parchment is an intelligent and engaging book that will capture the attention of medievalists and students.”—Raymond Clemens, coauthor of Introduction to Manuscript Studies“Elegant, capacious, and engaging, this is an astoundingly broad yet detailed investigation into the manufacture, use, and imaginative understandings of parchment across a range of cultures from antiquity to the present.”—Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan“In this deeply researched and creative book, distinguished medievalist and novelist Bruce Holsinger grapples with the manifold ways in which humans have literally enrolled animals in the task of memorializing the past. This book puts conversations about archival methods and historical memory in direct contact with the natural sciences, and it does so in ways that are deeply important for the humanities.”—Michael Witmore, director of the Folger Shakespeare Library

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Book SynopsisMateriality looms large in the world of archives in storage, conservation, and shape or materials of the records. How does this materiality change in the digital age? The way digital techniques and materialities transform our engagement with archives is highlighted and explored throughout Archival Materialities in a Digital Age.

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Book SynopsisThe accessibility of cultural resources via digital platforms is empowering Vietnamese cultural professionals to promote their culture to local and international audiences. This shortform book investigates the significance of digitization in Vietnamese culture, illuminating how cultural professionals are empowered through the process of digitization. The author shows how digitization is not an entirely comprehensive, ethical, or sustainable solution for the cultural sector in Vietnam, as cultural professionals working at nonprofit art spaces and artists experience both opportunities and challenges in digitizing art and culture. Drawing on new interviews with cultural professionals working in the cultural sector in Vietnam, the book will be of interest to scholars and reflective practitioners involved with the cultural and creative industries in South East Asia and globally.Table of Contents1. Digital Culture and Digitization in Asia and the Global South 2. Digitization and Cultural Professionals in Vietnam 3. Digitization and Digital Platforms in Practice 4. Future Prospects and Concerns for Vietnam’s Culture Sector

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Book SynopsisSlote shows you how to identify the core collections versus the weedable items. After reviewing current weeding practices and standards, he discusses a variety of traditional and computer-assisted methods for weeding.Based on the author's ongoing research, field observations, and interviews with library professionals, this edition thoroughly updates the previous one and simplifies the process of weeding. Slote shows librarians how to identify the core collections versus the weedable items. After reviewing current weeding practices and standards, he discusses a variety of traditional and computer-assisted methods for weeding. His approach is based on the new understanding of the relationship between in-library use and circulation use. A section dealing with reference (noncirculating) collections has been added, and the chapter on computer-assisted weeding has been completely rewritten to help librarians streamline the weeding process. All forms have been redesigned.

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Book SynopsisVolume 32 of Advances in Library Administration and Organization brings together a collection of studies which highlight up and coming issues that today's library managers and researchers face. The book will examine the challenges that library administrators encounter on a daily basis, review emerging trends and bring critical analysis to this area of Library and Information Science.Table of ContentsBricks, mortar, and control: A multicase examination of the public library as organization space. Framing of academic libraries’ roles in the strategic documents of universities: A map of factors and agents. Academic libraries and open access strategies. The language of academic librarianship: The discourse of promotion and tenure. Merging large and complex library organizations. About the Authors. Copyright page. Advances in library administration and organization. Introduction. List of Contributors. Advances in library administration and organization. Advances in library administration and organization.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies. It outlines the historical background of, and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to documentation issues and processes: not only in the context of academic study, but also in the practice of documentation in different parts of society.What do a composer, a writer, a painter, a historian, a political activist, and a social agency office have in common? They all create documents to communicate and inform the world, making documentation a necessity for any human interaction in society. Through six case-studies, the book shows how a complementary analysis of the intertwined processes of documentation, communication, and information in any kind of human interaction can be conducted. It demonstrates the relationships between the agents involved, the means chosen and in which modes the resulting complexes of documents are created, regardless of the field.The complementary analytical model and method is relevant not only for documentation, communication, and information scholars, but to a range of fields of research in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences/engineering and design.Written by an expert in documentation, this book provides a solid theoretical and analytical framework for professionals in archives, libraries, and museums, and for all those who manage documents as part of their professional life in healthcare, transportation, education, production and trade.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: DOCUMENTATION THEORY1 Setting the Stage2 A Complementary Theory of Documentation3 A Model for a Complementary Documentation AnalysisPart 2: DOCUMENTATION IN PRACTICE4 Music: A Requiem for Countess von Walsegg, aka Mozart's Requiem5 Literature: "Indian Camp" - A Short Story by Ernest Hemingway6 Art: The Girls on the Bridge - One Title - Many works7 Science: "The Danish Revolution 1500-1800" - A Doctoral dissertation8 Politics: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 19639 Identity Documentation: Name and numberPart 3: DOCUMENTATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE10: Documentation in a comparative perspective11: A complementary discipline of documentation, information, and communicationEpilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first comprehensive introduction to documentation studies. It outlines the historical background of, and the theoretical foundation for a complementary approach to documentation issues and processes: not only in the context of academic study, but also in the practice of documentation in different parts of society.What do a composer, a writer, a painter, a historian, a political activist, and a social agency office have in common? They all create documents to communicate and inform the world, making documentation a necessity for any human interaction in society. Through six case-studies, the book shows how a complementary analysis of the intertwined processes of documentation, communication, and information in any kind of human interaction can be conducted. It demonstrates the relationships between the agents involved, the means chosen and in which modes the resulting complexes of documents are created, regardless of the field.The complementary analytical model and method is relevant not only for documentation, communication, and information scholars, but to a range of fields of research in humanities, social sciences and natural sciences/engineering and design.Written by an expert in documentation, this book provides a solid theoretical and analytical framework for professionals in archives, libraries, and museums, and for all those who manage documents as part of their professional life in healthcare, transportation, education, production and trade.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: DOCUMENTATION THEORY1 Setting the Stage2 A Complementary Theory of Documentation3 A Model for a Complementary Documentation AnalysisPart 2: DOCUMENTATION IN PRACTICE4 Music: A Requiem for Countess von Walsegg, aka Mozart's Requiem5 Literature: "Indian Camp" - A Short Story by Ernest Hemingway6 Art: The Girls on the Bridge - One Title - Many works7 Science: "The Danish Revolution 1500-1800" - A Doctoral dissertation8 Politics: The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom August 28, 19639 Identity Documentation: Name and numberPart 3: DOCUMENTATION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE10: Documentation in a comparative perspective11: A complementary discipline of documentation, information, and communicationEpilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive, entry-level guide for librarians and archivists who have found themselves managing or are planning to manage born-digital content. Libraries and archives of all sizes are collecting and managing an increasing proportion of digital content. Within this body of digital content is a growing pool of ‘born-digital’ content: content that has been created and has often existed solely in digital form. The No-nonsense Guide to Born-digital Content explains step by step processes for developing and implementing born-digital content workflows in library and archive settings of all sizes and includes a range of case studies collected from small, medium and large institutions internationally. Coverage includes: the wide range of digital storage media and the various sources of born-digital content a guide to digital information basics selection, acquisition, accessioning and ingest description, preservation and access methods for designing & implementing workflows for born-digital collection processing a comprehensive glossary of common technical terms strategies and philosophies to move forward as technologies change. This book will be useful reading for LIS and archival students and professionals who are working with, or plan to work with, born digital content. It will also be of interest to museum professionals, data managers, data scientists, and records managers.Trade Review'...there is value for everyone in the well-reasoned discussions about overarching strategies, policies, and processes, which are necessary before any of the capturing and processing of resources can begin...Recommended. Graduate students and professionals.'- H. C. Williams, University of Washington, CHOICE -- H. C. Williams * CHOICE *'In short, Ryan and Sampson synthesize a myriad of community practices and highly technical documentation, standards, and models into clear prose with minimal jargon, and they make a substantial contribution to the professional literature. I anticipate that The No-Nonsense Guide to Born-Digital Content will prove to be a valuable resource in and outside of the classroom for many years to come.' -- Blake Graham * The American Archivist *'Overall, I found the book a well-written and engaging guide to what can be an intimidating subject...I would definitely recommend it to anyone trying to get to grips with born-digital content but it should be used as a guide to familiarise yourself with the basics and seen as a starting point for new avenues of exploration.' -- Emily Chen * Taylor & Francis Online *Table of ContentsForeword - Trevor OwensIntroductionWhat is born-digital content? Why is this important? About the book Additional resources Representing the world of libraries and archives 1. Digital information basicsWhat is digital information? Hexadecimal Digital file types Storage media Command line basics Code repositories Conclusion Further reading2. SelectionTypes of born-digital content Format- versus content-driven collecting decisions Mission statements, collecting policies and donor agreements Gift agreements Stanford University’s approach to selection in web archiving Conclusion Further reading3.Acquisition, accessioning and ingestPrinciples in acquisition Acquisition of born-digital material on a physical carrier Checksums and checksum algorithms Acquisition of network-born materials Accession Ingest Conclusion Further reading4.DescriptionGeneral fields and types of information Descriptive standards and element sets General element sets Descriptive systems Use cases Conclusion Further reading5. Digital preservation storage and strategiesA note on acquisition A note on file formats Thinking about storage Certification Digital preservation policy Conclusion Further reading6. AccessDeciding on your access strategy Methods of access Use case Conclusion Further reading7. Designing and implementing workflowsA note on tools Design principles Workflow and policy Examples Case study Conclusion Further reading8. New and emerging areas in born-digital materialsTechnology in general Storage Software and apps Cloud technologies Smartphones Digital art and new media Emerging descriptive and access methods Growing your skills Conclusion Further readingConclusion

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Book SynopsisRecordkeeping Cultures explores how an understanding of organisational information culture provides the insight necessary for the development and promotion of sound recordkeeping practices. The book is a fully revised and expanded new edition of the authors’ 2014 book Records Management and Information Culture: Tackling the people problem. It details an innovative framework for analysing and assessing information culture, and indicates how to use this knowledge to change behaviour and develop recordkeeping practices that are aligned with the specific characteristics of any workplace. This framework addresses the widely recognised problem of improving organisation-wide compliance with a records management programme by tackling the different aspects that make up the organisation’s information culture. Discussion of topics at each level of the framework includes strategies and guidelines for assessment, followed by suggestions for next steps: appropriate actions and strategies to influence behavioural change. This new edition has been fully revised and update to greatly enhance the practical application of the information culture concept in both formal and informal recordkeeping environments and contains new chapters on: diagnostic features: genres, workarounds and infrastructure workplace collaboration: how to analyse collaborative practices in organisations (including recordkeeping) education: how to teach information culture concepts and methods in archives and records management graduate programmes. Archivists, records managers and information technology specialists will find this an invaluable guide to improving their practice and solving the ‘people problem’ of non-compliance with records management programmes. LIS students taking archives and records management modules will also benefit from the application of theory into practice. Records management and information management educators will find the ideas and approaches discussed in this book useful to add an information culture perspective to their curricula. Table of Contents1. Background and context 2. The value accorded to records 3. Information preferences 4. Language considerations 5. Information-related competencies 6. Awareness of environmental requirements relating to records 7. Corporate IT governance 8. Trust in recordkeeping systems 9. Genres 10. Workarounds 11. Infrastructure 12. Workplace collaboration 13. Education

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Book SynopsisFluid preservation refers to specimens and objects that are preserved in fluids, most commonly alcohol and formaldehyde, but also glycerin, mineral oil, acids, glycols, and a host of other chemicals that protect the specimen from deterioration. Some of the oldest natural history specimens in the world are preserved in fluid. Despite the fact that fluid preservation has been practiced for more than 350 years, this is the only handbook that summarize all that is known about this complex and often confusing topic. Fluid Preservation: A Comprehensive Reference covers the history and techniques of fluid preservation and how to care for fluid preserved specimens in collections. More than 900 references on fluid preservation were reviewed for this project. An historical survey of preservative recipes provides for guidance for museums with older collections (many fluid preservatives contain hazardous chemicals). Current standards and best practices for collection care and management are pTrade ReviewPreservation techniques for biological specimens have often been handed down by oral tradition rather than subjected to rigorous scrutiny and long-term evaluation. This volume is an overview of procedures, chemicals, and containers, not a how-to manual. The initial chapter provides an interesting review of the history of preservation of plant/animal specimens, ranging from ancient practices to modern DNA extraction and preservation, and summarizes knowledge about long-term/indefinite fluid preservation of organic materials. Simmons addresses the merits and drawbacks of various protocols, temperatures, preservation fluids, sealants, and container types in preventing postmortem changes in tissues. Post-fixation processing, specimen repair, transfer to newer containers and solutions, and health/safety concerns are also covered. The second half of this volume contains well-organized, extensive tables, including a copious review of the literature, ranging from DNA preservation techniques to cultural references. The largest table is arranged alphabetically by author, with columns for specimen type and helpful directions and comments. Updating much of the information found in earlier books, this well-researched volume will be a valuable addition not only for collections serving museum curators and preservationists but also botanists, zoologists, chemists, and chemical engineers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners. * CHOICE *[This] book can be considered essential for all who are responsible for collections in liquid media. * Brazilian Herpetology *Fluid Preservations is an astounding assemblage of what is knowable through the literature about the fine art - some say voodoo - of keeping organics preserved in chemicals. Simmons guides a reader through a history of best efforts, thereby acknowledging that readers will draw their own rational conclusions when developing best practice(s), while adhering to the caveat to always monitor, record successes and failures, and adapt if/when needed.... This is a compelling read.... * SPNHC Connection: Newsletter of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections *This examination of the science behind the fluid preservation of biological specimens is essential reading for curators and conservators alike. There is a wealth of information in this exceptionally well-researched book which is worth buying for the comprehensive reference list alone! John Simmons has also collected anecdotes and misconceptions about fluid preservation which makes his book a suitable read for those outside the small world of museum professionals. -- Simon Moore, Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, The National Trust, United KingdomFilled with practical references and recommendations and a bibliography embracing sources from the very beginning of fluid preservation in the early 17th century to DNA preservation, this book summarizes the written knowledge on fixation, preservation, secondary interactions of preservatives and gives valuable information on collection care by exploring available literature far beyond Anglo-American sources. It is more than just a comprehensive reference, it embodies our knowledge of fluid preservation and conveys the most comprehensive practical advice that can be offered, from an author truly devoted to collection care. -- Dirk Neumann, Ichthyology section, The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology, Munich, GermanyJohn Simmons has created the ultimate reference on the science and mythology of fluid preservation. Thoroughly researched and written with wry wit, it is an indispensable and highly readable resource. -- Catharine Hawks, adjunct faculty, Museum Studies Program, The George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Acknowledgements Part I. Fluid Preservation Techniques and Collections Chapter 1. History of Fluid Preservation Fluid Preservation in the Ancient World History of Ethyl Alcohol Origin of the Name Alcohol Glass Containers The Discovery of Preservation of Specimens in Ethyl Alcohol Early Instructions for Preserving Specimens in Fluids Later Instructions for Preserving Specimens in Fluids Fluid Preserved Collections Other Fluid Preservatives Summary Chapter 2. Fixation Fixation Formaldehyde Origin of the Names Formaldehyde, Formol, and Formalin Commercial Formaldehyde Formaldehyde as a Fixative and Preservative Fixative pH Range Narcotization Fixatives for Botanical Specimens Temperature, Time, and Rates of Penetration of Fixatives The Penetration-Fixation Paradox Lipids and Fixation Formaldehyde and Field Work Paraformaldehyde Post-Formaldehyde Fixation Washing Unwanted Effects of Formaldehyde Gluteraldehyde Aldehyde Safety Alternative and Proprietary Fixatives Chapter 3. Preservation Preservation without Fixation Freezing Transfer between Fluids Preservative Quality Old Fluid Preservatives Botanical Use of Fluid Preservation Glycerin Isopropyl Alcohol Fluid Preservation for DNA Extraction Evaporation Clearing and Staining Anatomical and Histological Fluid Preparations Mounting Specimens Inside Containers Glycol, Phenol, and Phenoxetol as Preservatives Novec Fluid Mineral Oil Universal Fixatives Criteria for Evaluating Alternative Fixative and Preservative Fluids Chapter 4. Effects of Fixatives and Preservatives on Specimens Changes in Body Dimensions and Biomass Changes in Color Solvent Extraction in Fixatives and Preservatives Chapter 5. Managing Fluid Preserved Collections Identification of Fluid Preservatives Checking Fluid Concentration Re-Use of Old Alcohol pH of Preservative Solutions Preparing Fixatives and Preservatives Containers and Seals Alternatives to Glass Containers Labeling The Storage Environment Topping Up and Replacing Preservatives Why do Closures Fail? Bacterial and Fungal Growth in Fluid Collections—Detection and Remediation Rehydration of Fluid Preserved Specimens Moving Collections Exhibition of Fluid Preserved Specimens Dealing with Old Containers and Old Specimens Repair of Damaged Fluid Preserved Specimens Health and Safety Fire Prevention Formaldehyde Safety Chapter 6. Fluid Preserved Collections as Cultural Patrimony Why Preserve Specimens in Fluid? The Fluid Preserved Human Fond Memories of Fluid Preservation Fluid Preservation in Visual Art Fluid Preservation in Literature Fluid Preservation in Film Fluid Preservation in Popular Culture The Aesthetics of Fluid Preservation Part II. Literature in this Field Chapter 7. Literature Cited. Chapter 8. Literature Reviewed but Not Cited Part III. Reference Tables Table 1. Fluid preservation techniques. Table 2. Timeline of milestones in published fluid preservation techniques. Table 3. Tissue matrix types. Table 4. Proprietary fixatives (based on manufacturer’s MSDS, advertisements, and published analyses). Table 5. Narcotizing agents. Table 6. Disinfectant mechanisms of some preservatives (based in part on Volk and Wheeler 1984). Table 7. Summary of factors that affect the long-term usefulness of fluid preserved specimens (after Simmons 2002). Table 8. Timeline of the known introduction of chemicals in fluid preservation. Table 9. Anatomical fixation and preservation techniques. Table 10. Clearing and staining techniques. Table 11. Disinfectant mechanisms of some preservatives (based in part on van Dam 2003). Table 12. Criteria for identifying alternative preservative fluids (based in part on van Dam 2003). Table 13. Summary of fixative and preservative induced changes in invertebrates. Table 14. Summary of fixative and preservative induced changes in invertebrates by taxonomic group. Table 15. Summary of fixative and preservative induced changes in vertebrates by taxonomic group. Table 16. Summary of fixative and preservative induced changes in vertebrates by taxonomic group. Table 17. Proprietary preservatives (based on manufacturer’s MSDS, advertisements, and published analyses). Table 18. Summary of published fluid concentration and pH testing of fluid preserved collections. Table 19. Characteristics of containers for fluid preserved specimens (based on Simmons 2002). Table 20. Oxygen permeablility of container materials. Table 21. Published recommendations for label substrates and inks. Table 22. Rehydration techniques for fluid preserved specimens. Table 23. Treatments and practices that are not recommended for fluid preserved specimens. Appendix Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis guide is aimed at those who have care of parish records and updated in the light of experience of operating the Measure. It includes information about operating the Measure in dioceses; suggestions for the making, care and preservation of records; and advice about records' management.

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Book SynopsisThe Information Audit is a process by which an organisation investigates its information requirements and matches them against the information resources and services that are currently provided. Using a seven stage model this book will take the information professional through the process of an audit.Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- The author -- Introduction to the series -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The changing role of the corporate information unit -- Chapter Two. Planning -- Chapter Three. Data collection -- Chapter Four. Data analysis -- Chapter Five. Data evaluation -- Chapter Six. Communicating the recommendations -- Chapter Seven. Implementing the recommendations -- Chapter Eight. The information audit as a continuum -- Chapter Nine. Bringing it all together -- Chapter Ten. Case studies -- Appendix A. Extracts from the research -- Appendix ?. Glossary -- Appendix C. Selected bibliography -- Index

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Book SynopsisThough it provides a richness of content, grey literature is often overlooked when conducting research. This book aims to change that, describing the importance of grey literature and offering a holistic approach to successfully integrating it into library collections.Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Grey Literature: its Past, Present and Future Chapter 2 Managing and Weeding the Grey Literature Collection Chapter 3 Ideas and Challenges in Cataloging Grey Literature Chapter 4 Persistent Identifiers and Grey Literature: A PID Project and GreyNet Use Case Chapter 5 Communicating the value of international grey literature: the Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) experience Chapter 6 Impact of Digital Transformation on Grey Literature Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisGuides you across the data lifecycle through the practical strategies and techniques for curating research data in a digital repository setting. The data curation steps for receiving, appraising, selecting, ingesting, transforming, describing, contextualizing, disseminating, and preserving digital research data are each explored, and then supplemented with detailed case studies.

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Book SynopsisThe image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theoretical frameworks and practices that recognize that the archives are anything but static. Archival deposits are proliferating, and the architects, practitioners, and scholars engaged with them are scarcely able to keep abreast of them. Archives, archival theory, and archival practice are on the move. But what of the archives that were once safely housed and have since been lost, or are under threat? What of the urgency that underscores the appeals made on behalf of these archives? As scholars in this volume argue, archives, their materialization, their preservation, and the research produced about them are moving in a different way: they are involved in an emotionally engaged and charged process, one that acts equally upon archival subjects and those engaged with them. So too do archives at once represent members of various communities and the fields of study drawn to them.Moving Archives grounds itself in the critical trajectory related to what Sara Ahmed calls affective economies to offer fresh insights about the process of archiving and approaching literary materials. These economies are not necessarily determined by ethical impulses, although many scholars have called out for such impulses to underwrite current archival practices; rather, they form the crucial affective contexts for the legitimization of archival caches in the present moment and for future use.Table of Contents Introduction Moving Archives: The Affective Economies and Potentialities of Literary Archival Materials / Linda M. Morra, Bishop's University Chapter One Archive Transfer / Archival Transformation: The Intervening Space Between / Patricia Godbout and Marc André Fortin, Université de Sherbrooke Chapter Two Don't you know that digitization is not enough? Digitization is not enough! Building Accountable Archives and the Digital Dilemma of the Cabaret Commons / T.L. Cowan, University of Toronto Chapter Three Myles na gCopaleen's 'An Scian': A Knife in the Back of Irish Archivists / Joseph LaBine, University of Ottawa Chapter Four Inside the Cover, Outside the Archive: The Dispersal, Loss, and Value of Jane Rule's Personal Library / Linda M. Morra, Bishop's University Chapter Five ""The fearful state of things"": Technologies of Transparency in the Annual Report of the Canada Sunday School Union, 1836-1876 / Erin Kean, University of Ottawa Chapter Six Listening to the Archives of Phyllis Webb / Katherine McLeod, Concordia University Chapter Seven Fresh-Water Archives: Reading Water in Troy Burle Bailey's The Pierre Bonga Loops / Karina Vernon, University of Toronto Chapter Eight Letting Grief Move Me: Thinking Through the Affective Dimensions of Personal Recordkeeping / Jennifer Douglas, University of British Columbia Chapter Nine Reading for Queer Openings: Moving. Archives of the Self. Fred Wah. / Susan Rudy, Queen Mary University of London

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Book SynopsisEngland is remarkable for the wealth and variety of its archival heritage – the records created and preserved by institutions, organisations and individuals. This is the first book to treat the history of English records creation and record-keeping from the perspective of the archives themselves. Beginning in the early Middle Ages and ending in modern times, it draws on the author’s extensive knowledge and experience as both archivist and historian, and presents the subject in a very readable and lively way. Some archives, notably those of government and the Established Church, have remarkably continuous histories. But all have suffered over time from periods of neglect and decay, and some have come to sudden and violent ends. Among the destructive episodes discussed in the book are the Viking raids of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Norman Conquest, the Peasants’ Revolt, the dissolution of the monasteries and the bombing raids of the Second World War. Archivists and historians have a shared interest in the protection and study of the country’s surviving records. This book has been written for members of both professions, but also for every reader who cares about the preservation of England’s past.

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Book SynopsisEngland is remarkable for the wealth and variety of its archival heritage – the records created and preserved by institutions, organisations and individuals. This is the first book to treat the history of English records creation and record-keeping from the perspective of the archives themselves. Beginning in the early Middle Ages and ending in modern times, it draws on the author’s extensive knowledge and experience as both archivist and historian, and presents the subject in a very readable and lively way. Some archives, notably those of government and the Established Church, have remarkably continuous histories. But all have suffered over time from periods of neglect and decay, and some have come to sudden and violent ends. Among the destructive episodes discussed in the book are the Viking raids of the Anglo-Saxon period, the Norman Conquest, the Peasants’ Revolt, the dissolution of the monasteries and the bombing raids of the Second World War. Archivists and historians have a shared interest in the protection and study of the country’s surviving records. This book has been written for members of both professions, but also for every reader who cares about the preservation of England’s past.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the potential of network analysis for medieval and early modern book history, with case studies of the Cotton Library, the Digital Index of Middle English Verse, and the Pforzheimer Collection.

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Book Synopsis​This book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative and archiving practices as they were shaped, expanded, and developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the years that followed. By offering an extensive global view of these changes as well as of the continuities that went with them, the book enters a dialogue with what has emerged as an initial response to the pandemic and the ways in which it has affected memory and commemoration.The book aims to critically and empirically engage with this abundance of memory to understand both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during the pandemic: what happened then to commemorative practices and rituals around the world? How has the Covid-19 pandemic been archived and remembered? What will remembering it actually entail, and what will it mean in the future? Where did the Covid memory boom come from? Who was behind it, how did it emerge, and in what social configurations did it evolve?Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Unlocking Memory Studies: Understanding Collective Remembrance During and of Covid-19.- Part I Can We Speak of a Covid Memory Boom?.- Chapter 2. “It seemed right to keep some sort of history”: Performances of Digital Memory Work by Young Women in London During Covid-19.- Chapter 3. Picturing Lockdown in the UK: Memorializing anOngoing Crisis.- Chapter 4. #Mémoriascovid19: Reimagining and Narrating Trauma in the Core of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil.- Chapter 5. The Danger of a Single Story: Epic-Pandemic Narratologies and Memorials of COVID-19 in Nigeria.- Chapter 6. Pandemic from the Margins: How United-States-Based College Students Think the Pandemic Should Be Remembered.- Part II Commemorative Events Between Memory Politics and Protests: What Has Changed During the Lockdowns?.- Chapter 7. “No quarantine to workers’ rights”: Recontextualizing Labour Day Commemoration in the Semiotic Landscape of a Pandemic Demonstration.- Chapter 8. The Struggle to Remember Tiananmen Under COVID-19 and the National Security Law in Hong Kong.- Chapter 9. “Memory Does Not Quarantine”: COVID-19, Remembering the Coup, and the Struggle for Democracy in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.- Chapter 10. Human Rights Day: Grassroots Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in South Africa.- Part III Memorial Museums and National Days: Did DigitalPractices Transform Commemoration in Times of the Pandemic?.- Chapter 11. “Le goût d’un jour de fête”? Commemorating the End of the Second World War on Twitter During the Lockdown: A Comparison Between France and Italy.- Chapter 12. #Hashtag Commemoration: A Comparison of Public Engagement with Commemoration Events for Neuengamme, Srebrenica, and Beau Bassin During Covid-19 Lockdowns.- Chapter 13. #DigitalMemorial(s): How COVID-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory.- Chapter 14. Holocaust Remembrance on Facebook During the Lockdown: A Turning Point or a Token Gesture?.- Chapter 15. Epilogue: Did the Pandemic Change the Future of Memory?./

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In China the tradition of a book society is longer than anywhere else in the world. Chinese paper making, calligraphy and woodblock printing date from very early ages, but have for a very long time remained almost unknown to the Western world. At the IFLA satellite meeting “Chinese Written and Printed Cultural Heritage and Library Work” in Hangzhou in 2006 the richness of present day book historical research and library activities in China has been presented by more than sixty papers. This fine selection reflects the width and depth of this extremely important and immense Chinese heritage.

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