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Preservation Education Curriculum Image Library

Images have been provided to assist you in illustrating most of the lessons. This collection should not be considered the definitive source for preservation images. Rather, use it to enhance your presentations and perhaps update some of your existing images. NEDCC is grateful to the many vendors and institutions—libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies—that were willing to share their photographs for this project.

These photographs are available as 72 dpi JPEG files, which can be downloaded for multimedia presentations in the classroom. You can view the caption and copyright notice for each photograph when you view the enlarged image. These images are to be used for educational purposes only and should not be published without permission from the copyright holder.

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This public library was completely destroyed by a fire, which was started when teenagers put lit incense into the book return. This 8mm videotape, recovered from a fire, shows the danger of not rewinding tapes. All of the recording on both reels was recovered but the burned section in the middle was destroyed. Detail of burned map. This leatherbound book was damaged by fire and then water, which was used to extinguish the fire. Books damaged in a fire at the University of Georgia in 2003. The fire was thought to be caused by arson. Computer monitors near the fire melted from the heat. A melted keyboard in the University of Georgia Library. During the fire, lights and their fixtures melted, dripping down onto the microforms cabinets.