Key resources for the Care of Collections

Fundamentals

• Benchmarks in Collection Care
• Manual of Housekeeping - The National Trust
• Museum Lighting - A Guide for Conservators and Curators, Saunders, G., Getty Publications, 2020.
• Pest Management: A practical guide, Pinniger, D. , 2008, Collections Trust, Cambridge
• A pen portrait of a Collection Care Conservator

Collections

• Benchmarks in Collection Care
• Collection Surveys - American Museum of Natural History
• Managing Collections - Collections Trust
• Manual of Housekeeping - The National Trust
• Care of Collections video in collaboration with SPAB (40 minutes)

Dust

• ‘Dust in historic libraries’ Lloyd, H., Bendix, C., Brimblecombe, P. and D. Thickett, Museum Microclimates, eds. T. Padfield and K. Borchersen, (Copenhagen: The National Museum of Denmark, 2007) 135-144
• Impact of Dust on our Collections - The National Archives
• ‘Investigating and monitoring dust’ International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) International Preservation News No.53, May 2011
• The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: the Care of Collections in Historic Houses Open to the Public, Bendix, C. and N. Pickwoad, ‘Books’, (Oxford: Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005) 475-487

Emergency planning

• Emergency planning - Museum of London

Environmental monitoring

• Climate for Collections: Standards and Uncertainties (Postprints of the Munich Climate Conference 7-9 November 2012) edited by Jonathan Ashley-Smith, Andreas Burmester and Melanie Eibl, Archetype Publications Ltd., London, 2013, 452pp. ISBN: 978-1-909492-00-4

Handling

• Handling Museum Objects - Museum of London

Hazards

• Hazards in Collections - Museum of London, et al.

Light

• Museum Lighting - A Guide for Conservators and Curators, Saunders, G., Getty Publications, 2020

Moves

• Packing Museum Objects for Storage - Museum of London, et al.
• Packing Museum Objects for Moves - Museum of London, et al.

Pests

• Buggy Biz: integrated pest management in collections, Brokerhof, A. W. et al., 2007. Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (NICH), Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Insect Pests found in Historic Houses and Museums - English Heritage
• Integrated pest management for collections : proceedings of 2001: a Pest Odyssey, Kingsley, H. et al, eds., 2001, James & James: London.
• Integrated Pest Management in Museum, Library and Archival Facilities: A Step by Step Approach for the Design, Development, Implementation and Maintenance of an Integrated Pest Management Program, Harmon, J. D., 1993, Harmon Preservation Pest Management: Indianapolis
• Introduction to Museum Pests - Museum of London, et al.
• Pest Management: A practical guide, Pinniger, D. , 2008, Collections Trust , Cambridge
• Pest management in museums, archives and historic houses, Pinniger , D., 2001. Archetype, London,
• Pest Odyssey
• Pesticide mitigation in museum collections : science in conservation : proceedings from the MCI workshop series, Charola, E. A. and Koestler , R. J., 2010, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute Workshop on Pesticide Mitigation (2007 : Washington, D.C.), Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press: Washington D.C.
• What's Eating Your Collection - Collections Trust, Birmingham Museums

Preservation

• Historical Perspectives on Preventive Conservation (Getty Conservation Institute’s Readings in Conservation) edited by Sarah Staniforth, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, 2013, 426pp. ISBN: 978- 1-60606-142-8
• Preservation Guides - British Library
• Preventive Conservation in Museums. Caple, C. (2012). Leicester Readers in Museum Studies. Oxford: Routledge.
• Preventive Conservation: The State of the Art. Studies in Conservation - IIC 2018 Turin Congress preprints (subscription only)
• Sustainable Preservation Practices - IPI

Risk Management

• Risk Awareness Profiling Tool (RAPT) - Museum of London, et al.
• Risk Management for Heritage Collections - CCI