Preservation Services

Collection Conservation and Outreach

Resources for Preservation and collections during COVID-19

COVID-19 Resource Hub-Colorado Cultural and Historical Resources Task Force
Disinfecting Books and Other Collections
NEDCC Northeast Document Conservation Center
A Preliminary Guide to Online Resources and Western History Research Collections June 17, 2020
Please consider this guide a first draft toward gathering information about resources for
conducting research when many libraries and archives are closed to physical visitors. The
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The sites and links below provide discovery tools as well as digital surrogates for primary sources. Some, such as the Internet Archive, give access to "born digital" sources. In this first draft, we have
focused on institutions within the United States and have not attempted to list museums, many of which do make digital surrogates available.
REALM Project REopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums
REALM is a research project conducted by OCLC, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and Battelle to produce and distribute science-based COVID-19 information that can aid local decision making regarding operations of archives, libraries, and museums
Resources for Archives
Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative
Resources for Emergency Managers
Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative
Resources for Libraries
Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative