Preservation of Modern Library Collections from the 19th - 21st Century

Syllabus

1. Introduction

2. Preservation in general

3. Documents on "modern paper

4. Film and photo material

5. Documents on optical and magnetic carriers

6. Reformatting

7. Digital documents

8. Digital preservation

Annotation

Tuesday, 5pm (in room 2014B Jinonice) 8 ECTS

The course deals with all aspects of library collections preservation, starting with the 19th century paper documents (books, journals) printed after the middle of the 19th century and ending with the modern document carriers like optical discs, magnetic tapes etc. Important part of the course will be devoted to the digital-born and digitized documents and their preservation. Student will get information on how and where to store such documents, how to treat them and as well as information about digital documents in libraries.