General maintenance and preventative care of a collection

Collections Care

Treating and repairing singular items in order to prevent aging and restore them to stable use. The term conservation is occasionally used synonymously with preservation.

Conservation

Planning out and arranging for a plan of action to prevent or minimize damage to a collection in case of a disaster, whether natural or man-made

Disaster preparedness

The process of creating digital information from physical information in order to preserve it digitally

Digitization

The process of creating copies of an object in another type of data-storage device that is different than the original

Reformatting

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

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

Information Preservation

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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

Types of Preservation

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

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