Resources

Products:

• The handiest archival box you will ever own.
• Full tab file folders. Because tiny tabs are for the birds.
• Envelopes to protect your photos from everyone and their grandma’s fingerprint damage.
• Cotton twill tape to catalog textiles.

How-To’s:

• Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission’s Archives without Tears video
• The American Alliance of Museums’ collections care resource page
• Minnesota Historical Society’s collections care resource page, including specific topics like:
  • Paper
  • Textiles
  • Audio-visual items
  • Framed items
  • And so much more!
• National Parks Service bulletins for when things look…gross
  • Insect pest damage and freezing techniques to combat pests
  • Mold
• What’s that thing called again? A must-have in the museum, now digitized and available for free: Nomenclature
• Sample finding aid to process your archival collections

Favorite Books:

• Gregory S. Hunter, Developing and Maintaining Practical Archives (Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2003)
• Dwight P. Lanmon, Evaluating Your Collection (Winterthur, 1999)