Focuses on the physical environment of the collection in addition to the activities, organizational policies, and resources. This method does not serve to quantify the scale of the problem, but to define need and begin a planning process to reduce risk to the collection

General preservation assessment

Collection of information and evidence of the damage to the collection

Collection condition surveys

Most detailed collection assessment method. Evaluates each item in the collection singularly and creates a plan to care for the collection based on individual items

Item-by-item survey

- General preservation assessment
- Collection condition surveys
- Item-by-item survey 

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San Jose State University

Assessing materials in a collection to best determine how they should be preserved 

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