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	Plastics Collecting and Conserving - This book answers the most frequently asked questions about plastics. As their conservation is a relatively new science, readers learn to spot signs of degradation and what to do about them. Quye and Williamson offer guidelines for homes, museums, galleries and archives. 128 pages, paperback ...
	Plastics: Looking at the Future and Learning from the Past - This volume of postprints of a conference held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is intended as a ‘marker in the sand’, a record of current perceptions and considerations of plastics within museum collections. Artists' concepts of plastic as a medium, and their views of aging and decay, challeng...
	Pollutants in the Museum Environment - Focusing on pollutants in the museum environment, their sources, how they can harm works of art, and what conservation measures can be taken. Although targeted towards people who care for cultural artifacts (conservators, collections care specialists, curators, collectors and registrars) this book i...
	Preservation of Electronic Records: New Knowledge and Decision-making--Postprints - Symposium 2003 - Preservation of Electronic Records: held in Ottawa, Canada, aimed to increase awareness of the issues surrounding the preservation of electronic records by bringing expert & leading-edge opinions to an audience including small & medium-sized archives, libraries, & museums.
	Protein Facts - Fibrous proteins in cultural and natural history artifacts. This book is designed to help collections managers, conservators, curators, collectors and students (of materials and material culture) to understand the properties of the materials (containing protein fibers) from which various objects ...
	Repairing Pottery and Porcelain 2nd Ed - This excellent resource on pottery and porcelain restoration is now it its 2nd Edition. This fully-illustrated step-by-step guide clearly takes the reader through each stage of restoration, tackling the simple, the difficult, and the extremely impossible jobs by providing practical informati...
	Saving the Twentieth Century: The Conservation of Modern Materials - Compilation of 36 papers presented in Ottawa focusing on modern materials in collections, conservaion policies and plans, the history of technology, processes of deterioration, and case studies about specific problems. 440 pgs. Softcover.
	Silica Gel - Information on the use of silica gel, how it controls RH, and how it is conditioned for use and maintained is presented. Specific topics dealt with include: the problems of display case leakage, how silica gel fulfills the requirements of a humidity buffering agent, and the maintenance of a silica g...
	Solving Museum Insect Problems: Chemical Control - Canadian Conservation Institute: Technical Bulletin 15 Insect infestations can severely damage museum collections and buildings. This bulletin is intended to help museum staff understand commercial pest control operations. It describes chemical methods of controlling insects, and includes informa...
	Techniques of Drawing: From the 15th to the 19th Centuries - Co-published by the Ashmolean Museum and Woodstocker books This concise overview of all the major techniques, surfaces and tools of drawing in European art spans five centuries. Drawing examples by Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer and Rembrandt. 48 pages, paperback
	The Art of All Colours: Mediaeval Recipe Books - Much was written in mediaeval times concerning the preparation and use of artists' materials, and we are fortunate that many of these manuscripts survive. They vary from lengthy treatises to a few lines scribbled in a margin, and from the accurate and practical to the purely literary. These sources ...
	The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques - Discusses traditional and new materials used in oil paintings and contains chapters in conservation, tools, technical data and bibliography. (761 pages Cloth)
	The Care of Historic Musical Instruments - This book provides thorough and expert guidance on the care of historic musical instrument collections, ethics and the use of instruments, materials, basic conservation treatments, maintenance strategies, and documentation. It was written by seven international specialists in the care and preservati...
	The Care of Musical Instruments in Canadian Collections - Canadian Conservation Institute Technical Bulletin 4 Guidelines for looking after a musical instrument collection from the acquisition of the items right through to their cleaning, care, and maintenance are presented, and attention is given to complete and thorough documentation and to the proble...
	The Conservation of Glass and Ceramics - Research, Practice, and Training. The first published work on key topics in glass and ceramic conservation. This book highlights twenty internationally respected authors' scientific research in deterioration mechanisms and in the methods and materials of conservation. 302 pgs. Softcover.
	The Gentle Art of Applied Pressure - Conservation treatments often involve setting parts of an object in position and applying pressure to them in a gentle and controlled manner. The clamping solutions that have been devised for this purpose are as varied as the practitioners themselves. Yet the art of applying pressure still remains a...
	The Great Libraries: Antiquity to the Renaissance - At first glance, this book, copublished with the British Library, appears very similar to Anthony Hobson's Great Libraries (Putnam, 1970. o.p.), but only the second half is comparable to the earlier work. Book 1 is an encyclopedic narrative history of libraries from approximately 3000 BCE to 1600 CE...
	The Library - Through the ages, humanity has created, destroyed, rescued, neglected, discovered, stolen, and cherished libraries—and no other institution so perfectly mirrors the human condition in any period of history. The Library tells the story of libraries and of the changing form and function of the book fr...
	The Museum Environmnent, 2nd Edition - The Museum Environment is in two parts; Part one: intended for conservators and museum curators and describes the principles and techniques of controlling the environment so that the potentially damaging effects of light, humidity and air pollution on museum exhibits may be minimized. Part two: the...
	The Organic Chemistry of Museum Objects, 2nd Edition - For the challenging task of analysing small samples of complex and degraded natural products. (224 pages Softcover)
	The Stability of Photocopied and Last-printed Documents and Images: General Guidelines - Reviews the technology of photocopiers & laser printers, & discusses the stability & preservation of copies. A full-sheet test for assessing the adhesion of toner to paper is described, & the results of testing papers according to the American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM) standard for perm...
	The Story of Glass -- CD ROM - IBM and MacIntosh compatible. Prepared by the Victoria and Albert and Corning Museum of Glass. (45 min)
	The Technical Analysis of Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts - By Salvador Munoz and Eugene F. Farrell This is a bilingual (English/Spanish) summary of findings about the miniatures that are in a collection that belonged to Alfonso V. king of Argon. 83 pages, paperback
	Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art - The papers in this volume, from the Hildesheim symposium, Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art: Reflections on the Roots and the Perspectives, confront the theoretical foundation and the ethical and aesthetical principles of the conservation of modern and contempora...
	Upholstery Conservation: Principles and Practice - Through many well illustrated case studies the interdisciplinary collaboration fundamental to upholstery conservation, and the complex decision-making process involved in the treatment of upholstered furniture, are made evident. The case histories are contributed by leading international practition...

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