Information and guidance for creating and preserving documents, which will become an archive for family, business and community.

Devised and Designed by the Conservation Studio of the Devon Record Office, Great Moor House, Bittern Road, Sowton, Exeter, Devon, EX2 7NL, U.K.

Copies of this Guide are available for sale from Devon Record Office - price £3.50

Contents

To find out more about the work of the conservation studio and how to care for your own documents, please click on the pages below:

• 1. The Work of the Conservation Studio
• 2. Search-room Etiquette 1.
• 3. Searchroom Etiquette 2.
• 4. Creating New Documents
• 5. Elements Damaging to Archive Materials
• 6. Preservation and First Aid for your Documents
• 7. The Care of Paper
• 8. Parchment & Seals - characteristics and care
• 9. Book Jacket – a dust cover for volumes
• 10. Book Jacket – illustrations
• 11. Book Wrap – a calico alternative
• 12. The Storage of Maps & Plans
• 13. Exhibiting Archive Documents
• 14. Mounting & Framing
• 15. The Care of Photographs
• 16. The Display of Photographs
• 17. Modern Media – machine readable records
• 18. Time Capsules
• 19. Disaster – Don’t Panic!
• 20. Conservation Materials –Suppliers
• 21. Conservation Studio Services & Materials
• 22. Local Professionals (private conservators)
• 23. Sources of Grant Funding & Local Groups
• 24. Conservation Web Sites