Penn State Libraries - Preservation Department

Internet Resources:

Staff Resources

Penn State University Libraries, Selector's Manual - http://www.libraries.psu.edu/select/companion/default.html

Out-of-Print Acquisitions and Preservation Procedures - http://www.libraries.psu.edu/select/companion/monographs.html#procedure

Digital Initiatives Group - http://www.libraries.psu.edu:8001/admin/dig/

Checklist for Digitization Projects - http://www.libraries.psu.edu:8001/admin/dig/checklist.htm

Collections Care Resources

Dartmouth College Library, Book Repair Manual - http://www.dartmouth.edu/~preserve/repair/repairindex.htm

The Book Arts Web: Basic Book Repair Procedures - http://www.philobiblon.com/bkrepair/BookRepair.html

George Eastman House, International Museum of Film and Photography Education and Research: Preserving Family Albums - http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/the_museum/faq-photography.asp

Library of Congress Preservation Directorate Caring for Your Collections - http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/careothr.html

Rare Books and Manuscripts Section: Your Old Books - http://www.rbms.nd.edu/yob.html

Digitization Best Practices Resources

Penn State University Libraries Digitization Best Practices - http://www.libraries.psu.edu/preservation/PSULbest.html

The Digital Library Federation

Digital Library Standards and Practices - http://www.diglib.org/standards.htm
Guides to Quality in Visual Resource Imaging - http://www.rlg.org/visguides/
DLF Newsletter: Documenting the Digital Library , Section 2 - http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=dlf

RLG DigiNews - http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/

CLIR Publications & Resources: CLIR Reports - http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html

Library of Congress sites:

LC Standards (MARC formats, Digital Library Standards, EAD, etc.) - http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/
American Memory Project -- Building Digital Collections: Technical Information and Background Papers - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ftpfiles.html

Berkeley - Making of America II Project (see White Paper which includes metadata and scanning guidelines) - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/moa2/

University of Michigan, UM Digital Library Production Service - http://www.umdl.umich.edu/ref.html

University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Standards - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/standard.html
Image Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/scanimage.html
Text Scanning: A Basic Helpsheet - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/scantext.html

California State Library:

Scanning Standards and Scanning Standards Appendix C: Specific Minimum Recommendations -- Besser, Best Practices for Image Capture - http://www.library.ca.gov/assets/acrobat/CSLscan.PDF
Metadata Standards - http://www.library.ca.gov/assets/acrobat/CSLscan.PDF

National Information Standards Organization (NISO): information on digital images from the NISO/CLIR/RLG Technical Metadata Elements for Images Workshop, April 18 & 19, 1999, Washington, D.C. - http://www.niso.org/news/events_workshops/image.html

Columbia: Technical Recommendations for Digital Imaging Projects, prepared by the Image Quality Working Group of ArchivesCom, a joint Libraries/AcIS committee. Last revised April 2, 1997 - http://www.columbia.edu/acis/dl/imagespec.html

Harvard: Library Preservation at Harvard, Digitization Resources - http://preserve.harvard.edu/resources/digital.html

Colorado Digitization Project Digitization Resources - http://www.cdpheritage.org/resource/index.html

National Archives & Records Administration (NARA) - NARA Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access, January 1998 - http://www.archives.gov/research_room/arc/arc_info/guidelines_for_digitizing_archival_materials.pdf

Howard Besser's Procedures and Processes for Scanning - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Imaging/Databases/Scanning/

Section on Data Standards and Guidelines - http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/standards/

Kenney, Anne R. and Oya Y. Rieger, Moving Theory Into Practice, 2000. - http://www.rlg.org/preserv/mtip2000.html

Ayris, Paul. Guidance for Selecting Materials for Digitisation. Paper presented at the Joint Research Libraries Group and National Preservation Office Preservation Conference, September 28-30, 1998, University of Warwick. - http://www.rlg.org/preserv/joint/ayris.html

Cartolano, Robert, Janet Gertz, and Susan Klimley. Oversized Color Images: Addressing Issues of Preservation and Access, New York State Museum Bulletins Project. New York State Museum Bulletins. 1997. - http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb

Chapman, Stephen, Paul Conway, and Anne Kenney. "Digital Imaging and Preservation Microfilm: The Future of the Hybrid Approach for the Preservation of Brittle Books." RLG DigiNews, 3:1 (February 1999). - http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-1.html

Dale, Robin. "Lossy or Lossless? File Compression Strategies Discussion at ALA," RLG DigiNews, 3:1 (February 1999). - http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews3-1.html

Frey, Franziska. "Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards." RLG DigiNews, 1:3 (December 1997). - http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews1-3.html

Hazen, Dan, Jeffrey Horrell, and Jan Merrill-Oldham. Selecting Research Collections for Digitization. Washington, D.C.: Council on Library and Information Resources. 1998. - http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/pub74.html

Hedstrom, Margaret, and Sheon Montgomery. 1998. Digital Preservation Needs and Requirements in RLG Member Institutions. Study commissioned by the Research Libraries Group. - http://www.rlg.org/preserv/digpres.html

Hardcopy Resources

(You can order these books from the web sites listed)

AGfa -- Digital Photo Course - http://www.agfanet.com/en/cafe/photocourse/digicourse/cont_index.php3

Conservation OnLine (CoOL) - http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/

Abbey Publications - http://palimpset.stanford.edu/byorg/abbey/

American Institute for Conservation - http://palimpset.stanford.edu/aic/
Conservators in Private Practice - http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/cipp/index.html

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) - http://www.ccaha.org/

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) - http://www.clir.org/

Digital Library Federation (DLF) - http://www.diglib.org/

Image Permanance Institute (IPI) - http://www.rit.edu/~661www1/

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - http://www.imls.fed.us/

Kodak

Permanence, Care, and Handling of CDs - http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/products/storage/pcd/techInfo/permanence.jhtml?id=0.1.18.18.13.6&lc=en
Digital Learning Center - http://www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/dlc/book3

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA): Archives and Preservation Resources - http://www.archives.gov/

National Endowment for the Humanities - http://www.neh.fed.us/

National Fire Protection Association - http://www.nfpa.org/

National Information Standards Organization - http://www.niso.org/

Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) - http://www.nedcc.org/

Paul Messier Conservation of Photographs and Works on Paper: Video Format Identification Guide - http://paulmessier.com/videoid/HomeText.htm

Regional Alliance for Preservation (RAP) - http://rap-arcc.org/

Society of American Archivists - http://www.archivists.org/

SAA Preservation Section- http://is.gseis.ucla.edu/saapreserv/prindex.htm

SOLINET - http://www.solinet.net/preservation/preservation_home.cfm

Vidipax: Magnetic Media Restoration Company - http://www.vidipax.com/

Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) sites

Indiana University Library - http://www.indiana.edu/~libpres

Michigan State University - http://www.lib.msu.edu/apd

Northwestern University - http://staffweb.library.northwestern.edu/preservation

University of Michigan Libraries - http://www.lib.umich.edu/preserv/

Ohio State University - http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/preweb

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - http://www.library.uiuc.edu/preserve

University of Iowa - http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/preservation/

University of Chicago, Digital Library Activities - http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/dl/

University of Wisconsin, Digital Collections Center - http://uwdcc.library.wisc.edu

Purdue University

University of Minnesota, University Libraries, Digital Collections Unit - http://digital.lib.umn.edu/diglibs.html

University of Illinois, Chicago

Other Preservation Department Websites

Harvard University Library Preservation and Imaging Department - http://preserve.harvard.edu/index.html

Yale University Library Preservation Department - http://www.library.yale.edu/preservation/

Cornell University Library Department of Preservation and Conservation - http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation

Columbia University Libraries Preservation Division - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/services/preservation

University of Pittsburgh Preservation Department - http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/library-resource/lib_rsrc.htm

University of Maryland Libraries Preservation Department - http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/TSD/PRES/1Preshp.html

Johns Hopkins University Preservation Department - http://www.library.jhu.edu/preservation/

University of California at San Diego Preservation Department - http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/preservation/index.html

University of Washington Preservation Department - http://www.lib.washington.edu/preservation

maintained by Heather Solimini
updated June 20, 2005