Short Introduction to Conservation of Library and Archival Documents

This book provides a basic outline of the concept of physical conservation of library and archival documents. Not only books there are various types of non-book materials like manuscripts, cartographic materials like maps, atlases, globes, topographic drawings, charts, etc., newspapers, motion pictures and video recordings like film cartridges, video cassettes, video discs, etc., graphic materials like photographs, postcards, etc., microforms like aperture cards, microfiche, microfilms, etc., three-dimensional artefacts and realia, sound recordings like sound cartridges, sound cassettes, etc. Various conservation techniques of different book and non-book materials have been thoroughly analysed here.