Apologies for cross posting
RE: Seeking information regarding best practice when archiving photos
within a Manuscript collection
I am a MA Information Studies student currently undertaking a placement
project at the University of Sussex Specialist collection. I am dealing
with photographs within Manuscript collections and am currently determining
how best to archive them separately in the special conditions they require
in order to preserve them.
If you deal with manuscript archive collections and could help with the
following I would be very appreciative. Please could you advise whether you
archive your photos separately, and if so how do you store them?
How have you dealt with the photos on an individual basis if you do
separate them from the main collection? For example, have you left a
surrogate photo in place of the original?
How do you catalogue the photos? For example, in a separate catalogue
database or within the manuscript collection, and how do you record their
existence?
Do you hold the image electronically?
Many thanks in advance for your responses.
Samantha Penn
MA Information Studies
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