Useful links

Collection Care

The Preservation Advisory Centre published some extremely useful guidance booklets that are available online.

• Basic preservation for archvie collections
• Understanding and caring for bookbindings
• Cleaning books and documents
• Damaged books
• Managing the library and archive environment
• Mould outbreaks in library collections
• Moving library and archive collections
• Managing pests in paper-based collections
• Preservation of photographic material
• Building a preservation policy
• Salvaging library and archive collections
• Library and archive storage furniture

Digitisation

The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library have produced a wealth of resources that are vital if you are considering a digitisation project. 

IFLA Guidelines for Planning the Digitisation of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections (in English, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Turkish)

Cataloguing

When you are cataloguing and providing the metadata for an EAP project, you will need to access these websites:

• The Library of Congress transliteration tables for non-Roman scripts
• Library of Congress Subject Headings

It may also be useful to check the language and script codes that we use at the British Library.

Other organisations and programmes 

• Documenting Global Voices
• Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
• Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
• Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
• IFLA Risk Register for Documentary Cultural Heritage
• International Digital Ephemera Project
• Prince Claus Fund
• UNESCO - Memory of the World Register