Planning, equipping and staffing an archival preservation and conservation service: A RAMP study with guidelines

Table of contents (78 p.)

prepared by
Michael Roper

General Information Programme and UNISIST

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Original : English
PGI-89/WS/4
Paris, February 1989

This document is the photographic reproduction of the author's text

Recommended catalogue entry :

Roper, Michael

Planning, equipping and staffing an archival preservation and conservation service : a RAMP study with guidelines/prepared by Michael Roper [for the] General Information Programme and UNISIST. Paris : Unesco, 1989. - 78 p. : 30 cm. - (PGI-89/WS/4)

I Title
II Unesco. General Information Programme and UNISIST
III Records and Archives Management Programme (RAMP)

© Unesco, 1989

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

Part one: Processes and techniques and their application

2. Definitions, principles and standards
3. Agents of deterioration and destruction
4. Preservation
5. Active conservation and restoration: Traditional materials
6. Preservation and conservation of non-textual materials
7. Substitution copying

Part two: Planning, staffing and equipping a preservation and conservation service

8. Establishing a preservation and conservation programme
9. Workshop accommodation and services
10. Staffing
11. Equipment and materials
12. Planning and co-ordination

Part three: Stages of development

13. Initial stage (Short Term: One-Two Years)
14. Intermediate stage (Medium Term: Three-Five Years)
15 Fully developed preservation and conservation service (Six Years and Beyond)

Part four: Summary guidelines

16. Preservation guidelines
17. Active conservation and restoration guidelines
18. Substitution copying guidelines
19. Planning guidelines
20. Workshop accommodation guidelines
21. Staffing guidelines
22. Equipment and materials guidelines

Appendix A: Job descriptions

Preservation manager
Senior conservator
Conservator

Appendix B: A layout plan of a conservation workshop

Appendix C: Basic conservation equipment and materials

Appendix D: Documentation of conservation treatment

Appendix E: A basic preservation and conservation library