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  • About Connecting to Collections
  • Webinars
    • Series 1: Protecting Cultural Collections
    • Series 2: Environmental Monitoring and Control
    • Series 3: Care and Storage of Historic Collections
    • Series 4: Preservation of Digital Collections
    • Series 5: Popular Demand
  • "How-To" Clips
  • Resources
    • Care and Storage of Historic Collections >
      • Books and Paper
      • Photographs
      • Historic Objects, Part 1
      • Historic Objects, Part 2 >
        • Glossary of Storage Materials for Historic Artifacts
        • Painting and Textile Storage Furniture
        • Vendors for Storage Materials
    • Disaster Preparedness Planning
    • Environmental Monitoring and Control
    • Preservation of Digital Collections >
      • Identifying and Selecting Digital Content
      • Storing and Protecting Digital Content
      • Managing and Providing Access to Digital Content
    • Preservation & Conservation Resources for Historic House Museums
    • Preservation & Conservation Organizations
  • Our Partners
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Environmental Monitoring and Control
One of the most effective ways to protect your collections is to correctly manage the environment that the collections are stored and displayed in. Below is a list of organizations that provide valuable assistance and on-line resources for environmental monitoring and control.

Connecting to Collections Online Community 
http://www.connectingtocollections.org/all-topics/manage-collections-environment/ 

C2C Online Community Webinar Recording: Choosing the Datalogger That is Right for You
http://www.connectingtocollections.org/recording-community-webinar-choosing-the-datalogger-that-is-right-for-you/ 

C2C Online Community Webinar Recording: Wireless Dataloggers
http://www.connectingtocollections.org/online-event-wireless-dataloggers/ 

National Park Service Conserve O Grams
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/publications/conserveogram/cons_toc.html 

Conserve O Gram 3/3 Comparing Temperature and Relative Humidity Dataloggers for Museum Monitoring 
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/publications/conserveogram/03-03.pdf 

Image Permanence Institute website – developer of the Preservation Environment Monitor (PEM2) and eClimate Notebook software
https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/environmental/overview 

PEM2 datalogger information with downloadable product sheet
https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/environmental/pem2-datalogger 

eClimateNotebook software
https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/environmental-management/eclimatenotebook 

Online Dewpoint Calculator
https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/resources/calculators 

Stored Alive! Interactive tutorial program
https://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/resources/stored-alive 

Northeast Document Conservation Center Preservation Leaflets:
    2.1 Temperature, Relative Humidity, Light, and Air Quality: Basic Guidelines for Preservation 
    2.2 Monitoring Temperature and Relative Humidity
    2.6   Low Cost / No Cost Improvements in Climate Control

The British Library National Preservation Office - Managing the Library and Archive Environment
http://www.bl.uk/blpac/pdf/environment.pdf 

Crack Warp Shrink Flake: A New Look At Conservation Standards by Pamela Hatchfield, Museum, Jan/Feb 2011
http://www.conservation-wiki.com/w/images/b/bd/Crack_Warp_Shrink_Flake_2011.pdf 

Environmental Standards – American Institute for Conservation wiki
http://www.conservation-wiki.com/wiki/Environmental_Guidelines 
 

Advanced Readings and References
British Standards Institution (BSI) PAS 198:2012 Specifications for managing environmental conditions for cultural collections http://shop.bsigroup.com/ProductDetail/?pid=000000000030219669 

Ford, Patricia. IPI's Guide to Sustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments. Rochester, NY: Image Permanence Institute, 2012. 

Grattan, David, and Stefan Michalski. “Environmental Guidelines for Museums.” Canadian Conservation Institute Caring for Collections.
Accessed December 7, 2012.
http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/caringfor-prendresoindes/articles/enviro/index-eng.aspx.

Laveìdrine, Bertrand. “The Environment.” In Photographs of the Past: Process and Preservation, 280-83. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2009.

Lull, William P., with the assistance of Paul N. Banks. Conservation Environment Guidelines for Libraries and Archives. Ottawa, ON: Canadian Council
of Archives, 1995.

National Information Standards Organization. Environmental Guidelines for the Storage of Paper Records. Technical Report NISO-TR01-1995.

Mecklenburg, Marion F. “Determining the Acceptable Ranges of Relative Humidity and Temperatures in Museums and Galleries.” Washington, DC: Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, 2007. 
http://www.si.edu/mci/downloads/reports/ Mecklenburg-Part1-RH.pdf and http://www.si.edu/mci/ downloads/reports/Mecklenburg-Part2-Temp.pdf.

Padfield, Tim. “Conservation Physics – Index.” Conservation Physics. Accessed December 7, 2012.
http://www.conservationphysics.org/.

Reilly, James M., Douglas W. Nishimura, and Edward Zinn. New Tools for Preservation/Assessing Long-Term Environmental Effects on Library and Archives
Collections. Washington, DC: Commission on Preservation and Access, 1995.

Walch, Victoria Irons. "Checklist of Standards Applicable to the Preservation of Archives and Manuscripts." American Archivist 53 (Spring 1990): 324–38.

Weintraub, Steven. "The Museum Environment: Transforming the Solution into a Problem." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 2.3 (February 2006): 195-218.
Resource list created by Rachael Arenstein, AM Art Conservation
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