Welcome to Preservation Starts at Home and thank you for your interest in learning how to preserve items that are of significant value and meaning to you. You will be helping to “unlock the potential” of items you have in your personal collection, “creating opportunities” for others to “access and enjoy” these items well into the future (Russell & Winkworth, 2009).
You can work through this website at your own pace, searching for information that is relevant to you and learning the DOs and DON’Ts of handling, caring, storing and reformatting specific items.
Preservation is the “activities associated with maintaining … materials for use, either in original physical form or in some other format. Preservation includes both activities taken to repair or treat damaged materials (retrospective) and activities taken to prevent or delay material becoming damaged (preventative preservation)” (National Library of Australia, 2017).
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