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Below are three citations for works related to preservation of
scrapbooks.  All citations are from Susan Tucker's excellent online
bibliography on scrapbooks:
    http://www.Tulane.edu/~wclib/susan.html

The SAA Visual Resources Section and other groups are sponsoring a
session on scrapbooks, including preservation issues, at the annual
meeting in D.C.  Please Come!

Conservation of Scrapbooks and Albums: Postrpints of the Book and Paper
Group/Photographic Materials Group Joint Session at the 27th Annual
Meeting of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and
Artistic Works, Juen 11, 1999.
St. Louis, Missouri.Available through the American Institute for
Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Washington, D.C., 2000.

DeCandido, Robert. "Out of the Question." Conservation Administration
News. No. 53, April 1993.
     This article traces the history of scrapbooks to the tables, or
commpnplace books of the sixteenth century and looks at the overall
history of scrapbooks. The author discusses 17th century albums of
prints and the work of 18th century William Granger(hence, the term
grangerizing -- the extra-illustrated book of the 19th century). The
focus of the work is on preservation but overall the author presents a
lively telling of both the history and the problems involved in the
conservation of scrapbooks. There is a link on the home page to this
article online.

 Library of Congress, National Preservation Program Office.
"Preservation Basics: Preservation of Scrapbooks and Albums."
(Washington, D.C., 1991)
    http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/zucker/zucker1.html
This leaflet, available both in hard copy and online, provides a very
brief history of scrapbooks and albums. Other sections deal with
accession and disposition, collection policy guidelines, environment,
physical storage and shelving, handling, treatment, and reformatting.
Suppliers for preservation materials also are listed.

--
L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin
Special Collections
University of Delaware Library
Newark, DE  19717-5267
(302) 831-6089
(302) 831-1046 FAX
lrjm@udel.edu

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