Preservation Policies, Procedures, and Guidelines

Policies

• Binding Policy
• Digital Preservation Policy
• Library Food and Drink Policy
• Library Staff Food and Drink Policy
• Preservation Policy

Procedures

• List of Approved Materials for Marking and Labeling Yale Collections
• Sending General Collections Materials to Preservation for Treatment
• Insurance Coverage for Transportation of Special Collections Materials Between Yale Facilities
• Insurance Coverage for Collections Using a Commercial Carrier
• Identifying Items to Send to Preservation

 Guidelines

• Preservation Item Condition Evaluation (ICE) Guidelines
• Criteria (Guidelines) for Retention of Original and Curator/ Selector Review
• Guidelines for Selecting Books for Colibri Covers
• Guidelines for Packing and Shipping Collections
• Guidelines for Selecting Materials for Mass Deacidification Projects
• Shrink Wrapping Removal Guidelines
• Guidelines for Choosing Storage Locations For Audiovisual and Photographic Collections
• Identification of Film Types
• Project Planning Guidelines (accessible to Yale Library community only)