- Badly designed book drops
- Lack of policies or policy enforcement regarding handling
- Poor use of book trucks
- Greasy banana peels or other horrors as bookmarks
- Storing/stacking books on floors
- No pest management/no enforcement of eating and drinking policies

Poor or frequent handling of physical information materials

Biological factors in the deterioration of physical information materials

The fundamental instability of an object because of its components, as opposed to deterioration from outside forces

Inherent Vice in Information Preservation

- Inherent vice
- Poor environmental conditions and/or fluctuations
- Poor or frequent handling
- Biological factors

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A set of rules and activities established in order to lengthen the physical life of a record

Information Preservation

Jank, D. (2021, September 7). Library Preservation: An Overview. Blackboard@Long Island University. https://blackboard.liu.edu.

Library Preservation: An Overview

- Collections Care
- Conservation
- Disaster preparedness
- Digitization
- Reformatting

Preservation Activities

- Storage environment in Preservation
- Preservation criteria
- Preservation standards
- Research and testing for preservation
- Vendor Services for Preservation

Preservation Practices Factors

- Digital Preservation
- Preservation Activities in Archival Processing
- Preservation in Librarianship
- Reformatting

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