Standards and Guidelines (E. Lingle Craig Preservation Laboratory)

The Craig Lab builds upon a number of standards and guidelines for practice to develop our conservation and reformatting procedures.

Conservation | Reformatting

• Current Procedures: Craig Lab Conservation Manual
• American Institute for Conservation: Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice
• Library Binding Institute: Library Binding Standards, 9th edition.
• IUB Environmental Health and Safety: Bio-hazardous Waste Disposal (pdf: 48 KB)
• IUB Environmental Health and Safety: Laboratory Safety

• Current Procedures: Craig Lab Digitization Guidelines
• Assoc. of Research Libraries: Recognizing Digitization as a Preservation Reformatting Method
• Adobe: Portable Document Format (PDF)
• Adobe: Tagged Image File Format (TIFF)
• Library of Congress: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema
• National Archives and Records Administration: Guidelines for Archival Copies
• Research Libraries Group: Archives Microfilming Manual and Preservation Microfilming Handbook (purchase information)
• Research Libraries Group: Guidelines for Microfilming to Support Digitization, 2003 (pdf: 1.5 MB)