This document outlines strategies for teaching preservation concepts, including having a range of institutions focus on getting collections and preparing them with metadata and appropriate file formats and housing. It also discusses fixing collections through maintenance, migration, reformatting, and metadata as well as using collections properly with environmental controls and disaster response plans. Finally, preservation enables continued access to collections.

1. Strategies for Teaching
Preservation Concepts
Annalisa Moretti

2. NEDCC serves as “an advocate for preservation by raising public
awareness of preservation issues and making preservation a higher
priority for collection-holding institutions and for funding agencies.”

3. A Range of Institutions
Historical Societies Public Libraries Academic Libraries

4. Preservation
Get it!
● Collection policies
● Metadata
(Provenance/Context)
● File formats/Obsolescence
Prep it!
● Shelf preparation
● Housing
● Metadata (Descriptive)
Fix it!
● Collection Maintenance
● Migration / Emulation
● Reformatting
● Metadata (Fixity)
Use it!
● Environmental controls
● Storage/Handling
● Disaster response
● Metadata (Usage
statistics)

6. Physical Digital
Stabilization Fixity

7. Physical Digital
Housing Submission Information
Packages

8. Physical Digital
Physical Supports File Formats

9. Physical Digital
Reformatting Emulation / Migration

10. Finally: Preservation Enables Access