Short Introduction to Conservation of Library and Archival Documents

ISBN-13: 9786206167242 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str.

Ashok Pal

Opis

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.

O autorze

Dr. Ashok Pal is an Assistant Librarian at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata, (ICSSR recognized social science research institute). He obtained his Ph.D. in Knowledge Organization from Jadavpur University. He has written six books and many scholarly articles in refereed Library and Information Science journals.