Almost every page opening has a photograph or cartoon to illustrate what is being talked about. When appropriate, non-emergency care to make things last longer is included. The appendix tells how to make good permanent photocopies, keep emergency supplies, deal with insurance companies, and find a conservator. And of course it is printed on acid-free buffered paper. Edited by Janet Bridgland.
Most papers are in English, but a few are in French.
The scope includes all of conservation, which means that museum-oriented papers outnumber those relating to libraries and archives. This includes an explanation, with experimental results to support it, of how H 2 plasma treatment of brittle paper increases its tensile strength by disrupting fiber bonding, making the paper less brittle. Long before the alkaline reserve in storage envelopes was used up by the acetic acid given off by the film, it stopped interacting with the acid and started co-existing. Difficulties with the Arrhenius Approach - M. Bilz and D.W. Grattan. Parylene C is more stable than Parylene N, but neither is recommended as a long-term treatment.