Preservation and Archives Professionals

Preservation of Archival Records:
Holdings Maintenance at the National Archives

By Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler
Technical Information Paper Number 6 (1990)

Table of Contents

Introduction

Foreword

Preface

I. Holdings Maintenance Procedures

A. Boxes

B. Folders

C. Oversize Records

D. Folded and Rolled Documents

E. Written Notations on Archival Records

F. Dusting

G. Damaged Records

H. Fastened Documents

I. Bound Volumes

J. Scrapbooks and Albums

K. Photographs

L. Preservation Photocopying

M. Unstable Copies

II. Holdings Maintenance Supplies

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