Sarawak State Library -

Preserving archive

Call no.: : 025.84 FOR
Author: : Helen forde and jonathan Rhys-Lewis
Contributor: : Affendi Bin Iezara
Summary: This book is cover aspect in archives management, it give me an idea how to practicing good handling of archival material, and can be praceting in our personal document management. There are 13 vital point discuss on this books started from undersatnding of the archival material until the last point that is putting preservation into practise. This book deeply dicuss what is archive material and the handling process of archival material, such as the storage practise include the humidty and the temperature to preserve the material, beside that , also discuss the disaster plan, how to save the material, what equipment include, such as disaster box, and also recovery plan. Beside that, it’s also highlight teh importance of digitizing the collection and how to perform digitizing include creating metadata. The other vital point is, pest control, know the common pest that can destroy the document such as silverfish, woolly bear end webbing cloths moth . Overall, this book is best practice of handling archival material also can be practicing by handling personal record.