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Supporting distributed cultural collections by connecting conservators and custodians

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Management Practices

Understand how best practice and benchmarking can help museums, galleries and libraries.

Photographs

Learn about appropriate storage and display techniques to ensure the preservation of photographic collections.

Electronic Information Media

Set up a preservation program for electronic information and media.

Collection Tips and Guides

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Paintings

Understand possible sources of damage for paintings.

Dust and Pollutants

Understand how to minimise pollution in your collection’s environment.

Common Deterioration Processes

Learn a basic understanding of some deterioration processes and some of the problems you may encounter in your collection.

Access to collections

Be familiar with a variety of display techniques which can help minimise the risks caused by public access.

Transportation

Understand the need to protect objects from fluctuations in environmental conditions when moving them from one climatic zone to another.

Planning and Budgeting

Budgetary process in terms of planning, controlling and reviewing income and expenditure, and the achievement of objectives.

Collection Surveys and Condition Reporting

Understand the value of examining and recording the condition of your collection and individual items in the collection.

Management Practices

Understand how best practice and benchmarking can help museums, galleries and libraries.

Metals

Understand the steps to take to minimise the corrosion of metals in your collections.

Health and Safety

Be aware of your responsibilities in relation to health and safety issues.

Counter-Disaster Planning

Understand the need to assess the extent of a disaster, and quickly assemble the resources you need to deal with it.

Electronic Information Media

Set up a preservation program for electronic information and media.

Collection Surveys and Condition Reporting

Examining Objects.

Handling

Handling composite objects.

Common Deterioration Processes

Examples of Deterioration.

Paintings

Climatic Zones.

Paintings

Handling Stretched Canvas.

Health and Safety

Chemicals and Solvents.

Photographs

Identification of historic photographs.

Volunteers

Recruitment and selection.

Electronic Information Media

Preserving audio and video recordings on tape.

reCollections: Caring for Distributed Collections, has been written by practicing conservators and is intended to provide a sound guide for the preventive care of cultural items. Active conservation treatment of cultural material should only be undertaken by, or on the advice of, a trained conservator. Before relying on any of the material in this guide, users should check its accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance for their purposes and should obtain appropriate professional advice. If in doubt, consult a conservator.

© 2018-21 by The University of Melbourne. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This publication is based on the original work reCollections © Commonwealth of Australia 1998.

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© 2018-21 by The University of Melbourne. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This publication is based on the original work reCollections © Commonwealth of Australia 1998.