CONSERVATION OF ARCHIVAL AND BOOK MATERIALS

M-STO/08 - 6 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

SIMONA INSERRA


Learning Objectives

The course will provide the informations needed to acquire skills to use in the conservation on archival and book materials, for a correct materials management.



Detailed Course Content

Archives and Libraries. Meaning and definition of conservation and restoration of archival and book materials. The preservation in Archives and Libraries. The environmental parameters and the characteristics of the storage environments. The prevention, maintenance, restoration. The conservator/restorer.

Focus on:

- The early printed books: prototypographers and incunabola

- Conservation of Antique Photographic Heritage



Textbook Information

Silvia Berselli, Laura Gasparini, L’archivio fotografico. Manuale per la conservazione e la gestione della fotografia antica e moderna, Bologna, Zanichelli, 2000, pp. 180 (chapters 1-2-4-5-6-7-9-10).




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