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Preservation Plan

Preserving Washington's Collections: Strategies for the New Century (PDF file of UW Preservation Plan, 117KB, 39 pages)

Guidelines and Policies

• Best Practices for Temporary Labeling of Print Materials (Word document)
• Binding Preparation Guidelines for Service Units
• Guidelines for Bookdrops
• Food, Drink and Tobacco Policy
• Replacement Page and Laser Printed Document Guidelines
• Guidelines on Shelving Books and Loading and Moving Book Trucks (Word document)
• Stacks Cleaning Procedures

Other Resources

• Preservation Supplies (Library of Congress)
• Proper Shelving Habits (University of Illinois)

Preservation Program Advisory Committee

Preservation Program Advisory Committee

Reports and Documents

• Accompanying Disk Migration Subcommittee Report, 2004 (Word document)
• Microfilming and Nicholson Baker
• Report to the IRC of the Task Force on the Provision of Archival Backups of Electronic Publications (Word document)

Services

• Book Conservation at the UW Libraries (Photo Feature from University Week, March 2003)
• Disaster Response for Libraries' Collections
• Environmental Monitoring
• Microfilm Duplication Service
• Preservation Replacement
• Preservation Statistics
• Rainy Day Book Bags

Surveys

• Selector Survey
• Unit Head Survey