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Promoting good handling
Preservation Advisory Centre training day
17 May 2010
British Library Centre for Conservation, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
Ensuring the safe use of collections by staff and readers is both good practice and a cost-effective method of preventing damage. Risk assessments regularly find that use of collections presents a high risk of damage, yet it is a risk that is easily mitigated. This training day is aimed at library and archive staff with responsibility for writing, implementing or promoting handling and use policies. The day communicates the role of good handling practices in the preservation of library and archive collections, outlines methods of promoting good handling practices within organisations and to users, and provides information that supports library and archive staff with the implementation of handling policies. It is led by Jane Pimlott and Sarah Hamlyn of the British Library.
Programme:
09.45 Registration
10.00 Welcome and introductions
10.15 Book structures and their vulnerability to handling/use
11.00 Break
11.15 Good handling policies – content and preparation
11.45 Practical exercise
12.15 Equipment and its use
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Promoting good handling in-house
14.00 Promoting good handling to users
14.30 Discussion and questions
14.45 Break
15.00 The role of protective enclosures
15.30 Questions
15.45 End
Cost: £95 + VAT (includes lunch and refreshments)
To book please complete the registration form at: www.bl.uk/blpac/handling.html
Caroline Peach
Head of Preservation Advisory Centre
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
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