Preservation and Management of Fluid – Preserved Biological Collections
Dirk Neumann, Julian Carter, John E. Simmons and Oliver Crimmen
ISBN: 979-8-218-01102-4
This book is based on the practical experience of experts from different fields engaged in the management and maintenance of fluid collections worldwide. It offers a specific perspective on the management of smaller and medium sized collections and their need to operate with limited resources, offering practical suggestions for care and maintenance. It combines unpublished data, personal knowledge and an extensive literature review on practices and materials used in fluid collections.
The original basis for this book came from the Cloth Workers Foundation’s project on Fluid Preserved Collections at the Natural History Museum in London, 2014. Further input was derived from the first Symposium on Fluid Collections at the Musée national d’histoire naturelle in Paris in 2018. At this symposium, results on conservation research on historic fluids and historic preservation methods were presented.
Each chapter provides baselines for achieving optimal storage and maintenance of collections and offers three different categories based on collections size, usage, and resources. Additional remarks provide further specific recommendations and information. Definitions, decision trees, tables, glossary, and full-colour images make this book a useful resource for collections care staff and administrators, and as a follow-on companion to titles such as the fluid collections chapter in Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage (ISBN 978-0-9978679-2-3) and Fluid Preservation: A Comprehensive Reference (ISBN 978-1-4422-
2965-5).
Available online
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UK and Europe https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/preservation-and-management-of-fluid-preserved-biological-collections/?id=440
Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage
Lisa Elkin and Christopher A. Norris, editors.
ISBN 978-0-9978679-2-3
$95 hardcover.
Good storage is the foundation of effective collection care-advancing conservation while promoting accessibility and use. Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage covers all types of collections, including science, fine and decorative art, history, library, archive, and digital collections. It concentrates on preventive conservation and emphasizes a risk-management approach. Reflecting the breadth of its scope, the new book is a collaboration between the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, the American Institute for Conservation, the Smithsonian Institution, and the George Washington University Museum Studies Program. It will be useful to anyone in the field of collection care looking for an overview of collection storage-be it an established specialist, an emerging professional, or a student.
Available online at https://store.culturalheritage.org/site/index.php?app=ecom&ns=prodshow&ref=AIC-31
Health and Safety for Museum Professionals
edited by Catharine Hawks, Michael McCann, Kathyrn Makos, Lisa Goldberg, David Hinkamp, Dennis Ertel, and Patricia Silence
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The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections have jointed forces on the ultimate reference book for museum professionals: Health and Safety for Museum Professionals, edited by Catharine Hawks, Michael McCann, Kathyrn Makos, Lisa Goldberg, David Hinkamp, Dennis Ertel, and Patricia Silence.
This comprehensive volume is treated in three parts:
Part 1: Principles of Safety and Health – fire protection, occupational hazards, and waste management.
Part 2: Specific Hazards (particulates, chemical hazards, and toxins, physical, mechanical, and electrical hazards, and radiation).
Part 3: Museum Work (facilities management, emergency salvage, collections management, fieldwork, conservation and restoration, and exhibit protection and maintenance).
The nineteen chapters were written by top specialists in their field.
This hardcover book is nearly 650 pages and is sure to be heavily used at your museum!
Purchase price $95.
Health and Safety for Museum Professionals – available at University Products
Museum Studies: Perspectives & Innovations
Stephen L. Williams and Catharine A. Hawks, Editors
ISBN: 9780963547637
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This book honors the memory of Carolyn L. Rose, a founding member of SPNHC and an individual who dedicated her career to the preservation of cultural property through unwavering professionalism and a strong commitment to academic education. Topics addressed include: Professionalism in Museums; Academic Programs; and Challenges in Museums. It comprises 19 chapters by professionals and students in the field of museum studies, demonstrating some of the depth and diversity of new information that is produced in academic environments serving the museum field.
The book is soft bound and 281 pages and available from University Products for $29.95.
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MuseumWise: Workplace Words Defined
Compiled and edited by Paisley S. Cato, Julia Golden, and Suzanne B. McLaren
A glossary of terms encountered in the management and preservation of collections. A project of the Documentation Committee of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. Includes terms derived from 48 bibliographic references as well as numerous additions from the editors.
Hardcover, 388 pages. $35.
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Managing the Modern Herbarium
Deborah A. Metsger and Sheila C. Byers, editors
This book highlights the significance and value of one of the world’s oldest and most basic elements of botanical systematics, the herbarium. It combines practical guidleines for the proper care of documented collections of preserved plants and fungi with recommendations for the responsible use in modern systematic research. Though focusing on collections of plants and fungi, the book also provides a useful model for other disciplines.
Softcover, 384 pages, 1999.
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SPNHC Reference Manuals
Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach
Carolyn L. Rose, Catharine A. Hawks, Hugh H. Genoways, editors
ISBN: 0963547615
Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach includes the work of 37 authors and more than 100 reviewers, editorial assistants, illustrators, and others who donated their time to the project.
The 458 page book (x + 448), includes five sections, a glossary of 262 terms used in the book, and an 18 page index.
The five sections, containing 29 chapters, include:
* “Creating and Managing Storage Facilities”
* “Creating and Monitoring Storage Facilities”
* “Selecting and Testing Storage Equipment and Materials”
* “Storing Archival Collections and Collection Documentation”, and
* “Funding for Collections Care.”
As the Preface states “… this new text provides the basic information required to select storage approaches that are appropriate in a particular set of circumstances, and to make informed judgments about all aspects of collection environments.”
Publication is longer available online. A new edition will be published soon, and will be available at the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) for $95. Please email editor@spnhc.org for further information or to preorder.
Storage of Natural History Collections: Ideas and Practical Solutions
Rose, C.L. and de Torres, A.R., editors, 1992 (reprint 2002)
ISBN 0963547607
This unique volume includes 113 articles on the practical applications of storage systems for everything from vertebrate teeth to ethnic costumes to large fossils.
All articles were written and reviewed by professionals in the fields of conservation and collections management.
Each article details step-by-step instructions for the construction of support and storage systems for various types of museum collections. The articles are grouped into subsections such as supports, containers, shelving, and organizational systems. The book also includes a glossary of terms, lists of materials, and names and addresses of manufacturers and suppliers.
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