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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 These images are to be used for educational purposes only and should not be published without permission from the copyright holder.

Click on the classes (left) to view image thumbnails.
Click on a thumbnail to enlarge the image.

Book boxes can be custom made in a variety of materials and styles. Chemically stable polyester sleeves allow both sides of an object to be viewed without touching the original, but evidence has shown that storage in plastic can accelerate deterioration by trapping acidic byproducts of decay. Acid-free, lignin-free document storage boxes provide support and protection to manuscript collections. Folders should fit snuggly into boxes; when extra space exists, cardboard spacers should be used to keep the folders upright. This custom enclosure provides a compartment for the original binding of the book. Drop-spine boxes make it easier to remove items from the box. Courtesy of University Products, Inc. It's impossible to access folders safely when they are stored unsupported on the shelf. Documents should always be stored in folders within a document storage box. When possible, folded documents should be unfolded, flattened, and stored in oversize folders in flat files.