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Preservation Management Summer School
20th - 22nd August, 2002

Venue: London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London
EC1R 0HB

This course is primarily intended for people working with archives
and records across the heritage sector seeking to gain more
in-depth knowledge of preservation issues. The course will be
suitable for people at all levels from archive assistants to
librarian managers of archives repositories. It will focus on
presenting the big picture of effective preservation management
with detailed examination of key areas. The tutors will be
Jonathan Rhys-Lewis a leading consultant in preservation
management and Janet Foster and Margaret Crockett of the
Archive-Skills Consultancy.

The course is intensive and highly participative: participants are
encouraged to prepare by thinking about preservation issues in
their own repositories. The programme is designed to enable you to
evaluate your preservation needs and develop your notes throughout
the course into an achievable strategy for implementation in the
workplace.

A course resource pack will be provided which includes:

·        supporting papers for the course content
·        bibliography
·        webliography
·        glossary
·        list of conservation suppliers
·        product information
·        basic cleaning kit

In addition to the resource pack, the course fee of £375 includes
tea and coffee and light refreshments. Participants will need to
make their own lunch arrangements.

COURSE AIMS

·        to give participants an overview and understanding of
preservation management issues
·        to facilitate participants in assessing and developing
their own preservation strategy
·        to provide practical introductions to specific techniques
for protecting archival material



 PROGRAMME
Day 1
·        Introductions and overview of course
·        Evaluation of your preservation needs
·        Definitions, preservation at the heart of archives
management, chemistry of paper
·        Building blocks of preservation management
·        Developing strategies and policies
·        Audit of holdings

Day 2
·        Field trip to conservation lab (Graham Bignell at
Standpoint Studios)
·        Storage, Good housekeeping (cleaning), packaging and
Handling
·        Other media

Day 3
·        Emergency planning and disaster recovery
·        Surrogates
·        Surgery
·        Individual strategy development
·        Round up





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