Strategies for Teaching

Preservation ConceptsAnnalisa Moretti

NEDCC serves as “an advocate for preservation by raising public awareness of preservation issues and making preservation a

higher priority for collection-holding institutions and for funding agencies.”

A Range of Institutions

Historical Societies Public Libraries Academic Libraries

Preservation

Get it!● Collection policies● Metadata

(Provenance/Context)● File

formats/Obsolescence

Prep it!● Shelf preparation● Housing● Metadata

(Descriptive)

Fix it!● Collection Maintenance● Migration / Emulation● Reformatting● Metadata (Fixity)

Use it!● Environmental

controls ● Storage/Handling● Disaster response● Metadata (Usage

statistics)

Physical Digital

Stabilization Fixity

Physical Digital

Housing Submission Information Packages

Physical Digital

Physical Supports

File Formats

Physical Digital

Reformatting Emulation / Migration

Finally: Preservation Enables Access