SYNTHESYS meeting: Curation of ethnobiological collections
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 24-25 June 2013
Collections Care: Selective References
General resources
CCI Notes. Canadian Conservation Institute http://www.cciicc.gc.ca/publications/notes/index-eng.aspx
Conserve O Grams. Museum Management Program, National Park Service, U.S.
Department of the Interior website
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/publications/conserveogram/cons_toc.html
ICOM 2004 Running a Museum A Practical Handbook,
http://icom.museum/uploads/tx_hpoindexbdd/practical_handbook.pdf
Fritsch, Juliette (ed.). 2011. Museum gallery interpretation and material culture. London :
Routledge.
National Trust. 2005. The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of Collections
in Historic Houses Open to the Public. Butterworth Heinemann.
NPS Museum Handbook. Museum Management Program, National Park Service, U.S.
Department of the Interior website.
http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/publications/handbook.html
Salick, J., K. Konchar & M. Nesbitt (eds.) (In press). Curating biocultural collections. Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew. Due early 2014. A copy will be sent to the workshop participants.
Share Museum East, Practical Collections Care: A Syllabus,
http://www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk/shares/resource_123.pdf
Keene, S, 2002. Managing Conservation in Museums (2nd revised edn). Butterworth
Heinemann.
Conservation and Collection Networks
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) website.
http://www.conservation-us.org
Connecting to Collections Online Community, http://www.connectingtocollections.org/
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European Network for Conservation-Restoration Education ENCoRE http://www.encoreedu.org/
European Confederation of Conservator-Restorers’ Organisations ECCO http://www.eccoeu.org/
ICOM Committee for Conservation http://www.icom-cc.org/
Institute of Conservation UK (ICON) Ethnographic Group
http://www.icon.org.uk/index.php?id=112&option=com_content&task=view
International Council of Museums ICOM http://icom.museum/
Museum Association, http://www.museumsassociation.org/home
Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA), http://natsca.info/
The Society For The Preservation of Natural History Collections, http://spnhc.org/30/
Museums and Communities
Simon Knell, Bodil Axelsson, Lill Eilertsen, Eleni Myrivili, Ilaria Porciani, Andrew Sawyer and
Sheila Watson 2012. Crossing Borders: Connecting European Identities in Museums and
Online, Linkoping University Press, Linkoping, part of the project European National
Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen,
http://www.eunamus.eu/
http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:516268/FULLTEXT03.pdf
Kaminitz, Marian A., W. Richard West, Jr.; with contributions from Jim Enote, Curtis Quam
and Eileen Yatsattie, "Conservation, Access and Use in a Museum of Living Cultures," in
Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths, eds.: Alison Richmond and
Alison Bracker, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 2009.
Johnson, J. S., "Chapter 14, Part 5: Touch and Discovery: Collaborative Touch: Working
with a Community Artist to Restore a Kwakwaka'wakw Mask", in The Power of Touch:
Handling Objects in Museum and Heritage Contexts, ed. Elizabeth Pye, Left Coast Press,
Inc. Walnut Creek, CA, 2007, pp. 215-222.
Disaster planning
Heritage Collections Council. (2000). Be Prepared - Guidelines for Small Museums for
Writing a Disaster Preparedness Plan. Heritage Collections Council, Canberra.
http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/sector_info_item/2
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Northeast Document Conservation Center. Disaster Planning. A Free Template for Writing
Disaster Plans http://www.nedcc.org/disaster/dplan.php
Dorge, V. and Jones, S. L. (1999) Building an Emergency Plan: a Guide for Museums and
Other Cultural Institutions. Getty Conservation Institute, Marian del Rey.
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/emergency.html
Integrated Pest Management
Florian, Mary-Lou.1997, Heritage Eaters: Insects and Fungi in Heritage Collections, James &
James Publishers.
French, A. 2011. Skins, shoes and 2,500 saplings: combining integrated pest managed and
contemporary art installations. In: Winsor, P., D. Pinniger, L. Bacon, B. Child, K. Harris, D.
Lauder, J. Phippard & A. Xavier-Rowe. Integrated Pest Management for Collections
Proceedings of 2011: A Pest Odyssey, 10 years later. London: English Heritage. 174 – 179.
Integrated Pest Management Working Group. http://www.museumpests.net A great resource
for IPM covering prevention, monitoring, identification, solutions, case studies.
Pinniger, D. & J. Thompson-Webb, 2006, Guidelines for Pest Prevention.
Pinniger, D. & P. Winsor 2004, Integrated pest management A guide for museums, libraries
and archives, MLA.
Strang, T. & R. Kigawa, Combatting Pests of Cultural Property, Canadian Conservation
Institute, http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/caringfor-prendresoindes/articles/10agents/chap06eng.aspx
Thompson-Webb, J. & D. Pinniger. What’s Eating Your Collection? An introduction to
Integrated Pest Management http://www.whatseatingyourcollection.com/
Winsor, P., D. Pinniger, L. Bacon, B. Child, K. Harris, D. Lauder, J. Phippard & A. XavierRowe. 2011. Integrated Pest Management for Collections Proceedings of 2011: A Pest
Odyssey, 10 years later. London: English Heritage.
Handling, Storage and Packing
Webinars by Connecting to Collections Online Community,
http://www.connectingtocollections.org/courses/collections-care-basics/
Object Handling Basics, http://www.connectingtocollections.org/objecthandlingrecording/
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Handling Museum Objects Heritage & Libraries Branch, Ontario Ministry of Culture,
http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/hrb/pdf/handling_museum_objects.pdf
Conserve O Gram 5/1 Storage Supports for Basket Collections
http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/05-01.pdf
Conserve O Gram 4/9 Buffered and Unbuffered Storage Materials
http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/04-09.pdf
Hazards in Collections
Collection Forum, journal of The Society For The Preservation of Natural History Collections
http://www.spnhc.org/20/collection-forum
Charola, A. E. and R. J. Koestler (eds), 2007. Pesticide Mitigation in Museum Collections :
Science in Conservation Proceedings from the MCI Workshop Series , Smithsonian
Contributions to Museum Conservation ,1
http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/museumconservation/pdf_hi/scmc-0001.pdf
Conserve O Gram 2/10 Hazardous Material in Your Collection,
http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/02-10.pdf
ICON Metals & Collections Care Group, Hazardous Substances Conference 2012
http://www.icon.org.uk/images/stories/hazards%202012%20icon%20metals%20collections%
20care%20group%20conference.pdf
Share Museums East, Hazards in museum collections: a Collections Care How To Guide.
http://www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk/shares/resource_120.pdf
Hawks, C., McCann, M., Makos, K., Goldberg, L., Hinkamp, D., Ertel, D. & Silence, P. (eds.).
2011. Health and Safety for Museum Professionals. Society for the Preservation of Natural
History Collections and the Health and Safety Committee, American Institute for
Conservation.
Odegaard, N., W. Zimmt (2009) Pesticide Removal Studies for Cultural Objects. In
Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Approaches, edited by C.Dignard
et al., p 217-225. Ottawa: Canadian Conservation Institute.
Materials
American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), informational
website for conservation techniques and materials. http://www.conservation-wiki.com
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Atlas of plant material and fibres from New Zealand and the Pacific, University of Otago
http://www.otago.ac.nz/appliedsciences/clte/research/otago037060.html
Alaska Fur ID project http://alaskafurid.wordpress.com/
Brunn, M. (2005). Fur Trade Legacy, the Preservation of Organic Materials: Preprints from
the Workshop at the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property, 31st
Annual Conference, Jasper, Alberta, 17-18 May 2005. Canadian Association for
Conservation of Cultural Property.
Cardon, D. 2007. Natural dyes: sources, tradition, technology and science. London:
Archetype.
Carr, D.J., Cruthers, N.M., Girvan, E. & Scheele, S. (2009). Approaches to the identification
of plant material used in Māori artefacts. Studies in Conservation 53: 252-263.
Catling, D. & Grayson, J. 1982. Identification of Vegetable Fibres. London: Chapman-Hall.
DeMouthe, J.F. (2006). Natural Materials: Sources, Properties and Uses.
Elsevier/Architectural Press.
Dove, Carla J. 2010. Microscopy of Feathers: A Practical Guide for Forensic Feather
Identification. Journal of the American Society of Trace Evidence Examiners, 1(1): 15-17.
Fiber Reference Image Library, The Ohio State University https://fril.osu.edu
Florian, M.-L. E., Kronkright, D. P. and Norton, R. E. (1990). The Conservation of Artifacts
made from Plant Materials. The Paul J. Getty Trust.
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/pdf/cons_artifact
s.pdf
Hoadley, R. Bruce 1991. Identifying Wood: Accurate Results with Simple Tools. Taunton
Press.
Kite, M. and R. Thomson (eds). Conservation of Leather and Related Materials. 2005.
Butterworth-Heinemann
Langenheim Jean H 2003. Plant Resins: Chemistry, Evolution, Ecology, and Ethnobotany
Timber press.
Lowe, B.J., Carr, D.J., McCallum, R.E., Myers, T., Ngarimu-Cameron, R. & Niven, B.E.
(2010). Understanding the variability of vegetable fibres: a case study from New Zealand.
Textile Research Journal, 80(20) 2158-2166.
National Trust. 2005. The National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of Collections
in Historic Houses Open to the Public. Butterworth Heinemann.
Wright, Margot, Barkcloth: Aspects of Preparation, Use, Deterioration, Conservation and
Display Conservators of Ethnographic Artefacts, Archetype Books, 2001.
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Preventive Care
Carter, David J., Walker, Annette K.1999. Care and conservation of natural history
collections. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.
Cuttle. Christopher 2007. Light for art's sake : lighting for artworks and museum displays.
Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann.
Knell, Simon. 1994. Care of collections. London : Routledge.
Michalski, S. Care and Preservation of Collections. In: ICOM 2004 Running a Museum A
Practical Handbook http://icom.museum/uploads/tx_hpoindexbdd/practical_handbook.pdf
pp.51-90.
Thomson, G. (1994). The museum environment. Butterworth-Heinemann, London.
Conserve O Gram 3/3. Comparing Temperature and Relative Humidity Dataloggers for
Museum Monitoring. http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/03-03.pdf
Share Museums East , The Museum Environment
http://www.sharemuseumseast.org.uk/shares/resource_55.pdf
10 Agents of Deterioration, Canadian Conservation Institute http://www.cciicc.gc.ca/caringfor-prendresoindes/articles/10agents/index-eng.aspx
Waller, R. R. 1995. Risk management applied to preventive conservation. Pp. 21-27, in
Storage of Natural History Collections: A Preventive Conservation Approach. (C.L. Rose,
C.A. Hawks, and H.H. Genoways, eds.). Society for the Preservation of Natural History
Collections. x + 448 pp.
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