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 These images are to be used for educational purposes only and should not be published without permission from the copyright holder.

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A surveyor should make note of improper storage conditions and recommend practical and realistic improvements. What's wrong in this picture? A surveyor should make note of improper-and dangerous-storage conditions. Collections stored beneath water pipes are at a high risk of water damage. Precautions should be taken to protect the materials. Framed items should not be stored on the floor, propped against a wall unsupported, or in direct contact with each other. These framed items are housed in a shelving unit with sheets of mat board separating them. Record storage boxes, stored directly on the floor, suffered water damage. Materials should be shelved at least 6 inches off the floor. Fire extinguishers should be accessible at all times, and exit doors should never be blocked. An adequate work surface is necessary for safe processing. Food and drink should be prohibited from this area.