Promoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries A Sourcebook for Academic, Public, School, and Special Collections

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Acquisitions & Collection
• Library & Information Science » Acquisitions & Collection

Awards:

• Library Journal Year's Best Professional Reading, 1997

Reviews:

• Preservation education - of staff and of patrons - is half the preservation battle. In the numerous case studies presented in this very useful book, representing the spectrum of library/archive environments, there is much practical advice and even some wisdom, readily adaptable to all caretakers of the human record. From UCLA's stringent security measures to the dramatic learning experience in an elementary school media center, this book explores how to raise preservation consciousness at all levels. Library tours, workshops, sensitive staff/patron interaction, programming suggestions, effective graphics, and creative use of the World Wide Web are all seen as opportunities to promote preservation. A particular and unexpected gem is Edward Hutchins' essay, "Guerrilla Bookmaking", which gets one thinking creatively about the human value of books and about how to communicate that value. In short, the principles of preservation education elucidated here make this indispensable. Highly recommended for all libraries. ways to raise preservation consciousness from library tours to creative uses of the Internet.
  —Library Journal
• Any library should have in its collection a copy of Promoting Preservation Awareness in Libraries....It is a useful source both for the staff and for the patrons who will find answers to questions on handling and storage of any kind on information-bearing entities.
  —Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory
• The book will undoubtedly be of use and interest to many librarians....For librarians who know what they want to do, but are unsure of how to do it or would like to draw on the experiences of others, it is a valuable addition to the literature.
  —Journal of Documentation

• Endorsement From Ann Russell
  Executive Director
  Northeast Document Conservation Center: This volume will be a very useful source for librarians, archivists, paraprofessional staff, administrators, and preservation professionals who are engaged in educating their communities about preservation issues...an excellent 'one-stop' resource for anyone looking for concrete suggestions for educational programs aimed at patrons and staff.... [This book] will be an important addition to the preservation literature, pulling together information that is essential to effective preservation programs but that has not been widely and easily accessible in the past.
• Endorsement From Robert DeCandido
  Preservation Division
  The New York Public Library: Promoting Preservation Awareness fills a long-standing need in the field of library preservation.... [The book] speaks to the preservation needs of public, school, and academic libraries that have, for too long, been sparsley represented in the literature. This volume goes a long way toward redressing that imbalance. Happily it does so with a number of interesting, informative and well-written articles that give good advice, concrete examples, and sound reasoning.

Table of Contents:

• Preservation Issues and the Community of Customers
• Creating Preservation Education Programs for Staff and Library Customers
• Evaluating Preservation Education Programs for Staff and Library Customers
• Preservation Education in School Libraries
• Preservation Education in Public Libraries
• Preservation Education in Academic Libraries
• Preservation Education in Special Collections and Archives
• Appendices