(300 photographs, 1000 paper documents, etc.)The purpose of the assignment is to use the information from the finding aid to predict the types of materials you would expect to find in the collection and then describe how you would make decisions about re-housing them. Through this assignment, you will apply knowledge about the preservation of library and archives collections gained during the semester to
carry out a common preservation planning activity.
Your answers to these questions should be provided in the form of a research paper, written in prose, with an introduction and conclusion. You should include facts and possibly direct quotations to support your arguments and cite them using a notes and bibliography citation style.Note that although the assignment is based on a real collection, you are not expected to look at the actual collection, but are expected to use the list of items and formats in the finding aid to bring in universal facts about preservation of library and archives collections.Detailed instructions for the contents of your report (please be sure to address each of these areas as instructed):
Re-housing:
– In determining the specific formats that might be present in the collection, use information from the finding aid to guide you. Example, if there are 100 photographs, and the collections creator lived between 1840 and 1920, what types of
photographic processes would you expect to find (e.g. glass plate negatives, matte colloidion prints and so on). Youll have to make assumptions, which you should explain. Then, be guided by the choices youve made in specifying the housing types you will need. –Glass plate negatives require four-flap envelopes and padded storage, etc.
– For assessing storage needs, assume that every item will need to be re-housed (and also disregard any descriptions of current housings in the finding aid).
– In describing the housings you would select for each type of object in the collection, be specific about the materials they are made from and how they should be designed. This assessment should be detailed enough to form the basis of an actual plan for housing: for example, if foldering, how many objects per folder? Why? What should the housing
materials be made from?
– Four formats are selected from your collection list with a star. For these four, please choose an actual product from a suppliers catalog and indicate the number of supplies you would purchase for your need, along with costs, presenting this information in a table. In your narrative, please indicate why you are making this particular selection. Note that in answering why it is not important to justify the choice of supplier, but only your rationale for the housing materials and
strategy.Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection
