num_pages: 356
description: Preservation of historical documents and library related materials is a growing problem in all library types and institutions. Fortunately editors Carol Smallwood and Elaine Williams have pulled together the wisdom of practicing professionals to elucidate how to cope with the many problems that arise when preserving managing and digitizing important collections.Preserving Local Writers Genealogy Photographs Newspapers and Related Materials contains informative chapters on physical preservation collection management cooperation with organizations and communities various formats and special projects. Each part covers the preservation of specific materials from newspapers and scrapbooks to photographs and oral histories. In addition chapters cover repair and restoration of materials while taking into consideration the current state of funding for agencies with an interest in history. Contributors also shed light on how the racial economic and political dynamics of the past affect how collections are gathered maintained and presented today.Preserving Local Writers Genealogy Photographs Newspapers and Related Materials offers plenty to inspire anyone facing backlogs of unprocessed papers or boxes of artifacts. Stories of the rescue efforts of a group of volunteers or the discovery of a lost diary show that the hard work of preservation is well worth it. Libraries archives and historical and genealogical societies all have their role to play in preserving important historical materials as do patrons sponsors and volunteers; such institutions and individuals will find this book extremely helpful in their preservation efforts.
language: English
title: Preserving Local Writers, Genealogy, Photographs, Newspapers, and Related Materials
publisher: Scarecrow Press