A Selection of Links to Sites with Additional Information about Preserving Your Family's Archives:

• For more links, visit the Canadian Conservation Institute Web Site - Preserving My Heritage or go directly to their Preservation Links.
• AIC (American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works) - Caring for your Treasures
• Government culture ministry information on cultural life in France - Safeguarding our documentary heritage
• National Film and Sound Archive
  • How to Care for Your Video
  • How to Care for Your Film
  • How to Care for Your Audio
  • How to Care for your photographs
• The Library of Congress - Preservation
• Image Permanence Institute - a department of the Rochester Institute of Technology's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, is a university-based, non-profit research laboratory devoted to scientific research in the preservation of visual and other forms of recorded information. The Image Permanence Institute offers preservation-related info and resources as well as products for purchase such as the Climate Notebook and the Preservation Environmental Monitor.

Preservation Resources

• Help! I’ve Inherited an Attic Full of History. Althea Douglas. 2003. Ontario Genealogical Society. ISBN 0-7779-2129-4. Copies can be purchased from the OGS at http://www.ogs.on.ca
• Care and Identification of 19th Century Photographic Prints, James M. Reilly. 1986. Eastman Kodak Company. ISBN 0-87985-365-4.
• Caring for Your Family Treasures, Jane S. Long, Richard W. Long. 2000. Harry Abrams, Inc. ISBN 0-8109-2909-0
• Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators, Konstanze Bachmann, ed. 1992. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-174-1
• Looking After Antiques, 2nd edition. Plowden and Halahan. 2003. The National Trust. Copies can be purchased from Archetype by emailing sales@archetype.co.uk.