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Amy Barritt, Librarian/Archivist
Traverse Area District Library
1. Develop a goal... have a finished product in mind.
2. Assign a value to items based on your goal.
3. Determine the item's disposition: Keep, Toss, Give Away.
Clue: You can't
keep it all!
... Keep, Toss or Give Away?
Records Retention Schedule:
IRS Publication 552;
http://www.hrrcpa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Individual_retention.pdf
Top 5 Killers:
1. Light
2. Fluctuating temperature
3. Fluctuating humidity
4. Handling and corrosives
5. Time
One Box of Photographs, Seehausen and Schlimmer Families from 1890s to 1950s, in top drawer of dresser in guest bedroom, got from Aunt Jean after Grandma Seehausen's passing, Images look good but lots of bent corners and stacked on top of one another
1. Make an inventory:
- Medium of the collection, record or item
- What information it tells
- Where it is stored
- Where did it come from
-What shape it is in
1. Don't do anything you can't undo.
1. Scope
2. Appraisal
3. Preservation
4. Conservation
5. Scope, pt. 2
2. Trust no one and nothing (LOCKSS).
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Collection: a group of resources related in some identifiable way.
Preservation: maintenance of artifacts and documents through study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of decay and damage.
Archives: non-current records of enduring value.
Conservation: treatment and repair to restore an
item to a usable state. A specialized branch of preservation.