ブックタイトルConservation and Restoration of Western Paper

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Conservation and Restoration of Western Paper

Preservation: Includes all the managerialand financial considerations includingstorage and accommodation provisions,staffing levels, polices, techniques andmethods involved in preserving libraryand archive materials and the informationcontained in them.Conservation: Denotes those specificpolicies and practices involved inprotecting library and archive materialsfrom deterioration, damage and decay,including the methods and techniquesdevised by technical staff. Interventiontechniques applied to prevent, arrest or delaydeteriorationRestoration: Denotes those techniques andjudgements used by technical staff engagedin the making good of library and archivematerials damaged by time, use or otherfactors.As shown below, ISO: Information andDocumentation - Vocabulary, 12establishedin 2000, adopted, for the most part, thesedefinitions above noted.Preservation: All measures taken, includingfinancial and strategic decisions, tomaintain the integrity and extend the life ofdocuments or collections.Conservation: Intervention techniquesapplied to prevent, arrest or delaydeterioration.Restoration: Actions taken to return adocument which has suffered deteriorationor damage as closely as practicable to itsoriginal state.Since 1986, in the field of librariesand archives, the words preservation andconservation have been clearly definedand used. Accordingly, professionals whoundertake conservation, such as repairwork, have been called conservators,while supervisors who manage documentpreservation activities in libraries andarchives have been titled preservationlibrarians or preservation archivists.Alternatively, they are called preservationmanagers or preservation administrator.The duties of a preservation managerinclude planning of bookbinding andrepair, improving the storage environment,microfilming and digitalizing of documents,developing preservation education programsfor staff members and users, forming andisaster plan, managing risk, and cooperationwith other libraries. It would be understoodwhat a preservation manager does iscompletely different from the duties of aconservator, which mainly involves hand-onworks. Conducting a survey on preservationneeds for a collection and formulating bothmedium and long-term preservation plansare also implemented by those who supervisepreservation activities.Regarding the preservation paradigm,future issues as stated below need to beconsidered. Library and archives preservationused to deal only with the documents andinformation that had already been part of thecollection. However, due to issues with acidicpaper, along with retrospective preservation,which is conventional, preservation issues inrelation to the documents and informationthat are to be added to a collection in the18