GOALS OF THE PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT
Fiscal Year 1999/2000

CONSERVATION 

GOALS: 

1. Review and document procedures relating to advanced treatments, including the use of transfer/treatment approval forms.  
2. Rework and update Conservation Web pages to document procedures rather than details. Link to other sites providing techniques such as NEDCC.  
3. Develop procedures for training students in pam binding and general collections repair. This will be to take up the work vacated by Jan Hernbergers move to binding. 
4. Continue the training of the Sr LTA in intermediate and advanced treatments. Set target goals for ongoing work such as Map library encapsulation and rehousing. 

 

 
 
 

That we plan to continue normal business goes without saying. But, it bears repeating that we endeavor to find more efficient ways of doing the same old thing. Find out how we propose to develop efficiency in continuing business. 

Primary Contact: 

John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu) 

Objectives: 

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• Review and revise, in collaboration with the Department of Special Collections, treatment registry forms, condition reports, treatment proposal forms, and transmittal forms. 

Progress:  

• July 1999. Draft forms have been sent to Special Collections for review and comment (November 1998).
• December 1999. Drafts approved and put in use for all Special Collection Forms.
• May 2000. All Special Collections staff are using the Registry. A form combining tracking, condition and treatment proposals is also in use for all items treated by Conservation.
• June 2000. Systems Office is reviewing and adjusting the Conservation Registry in an effort to make it more stable and useful. expect it to be completed sometime in July.
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Associated Library Goal: 

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Primary Contact: 

John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu) 

Objective: 

Simplify the Conservation Unit Web pages in an effort to make them easier to keep current and to document procedures rather than techniques. Techniques are already handled on other web pages and there is really no need for duplication. Appropriate cross references will be provided. 

Progress:

           May 2000. Discussion underway in the simplification of the Conservation Web pages. Little has been done at this point except for the planning because of reorganization and training. Expect to begin this month with the page updates.

 

June 2000. Dead links have been reactivated, proper headers and footers have been added, and outdated info has been eliminated.

 

 

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Associated Library Goal: 

[to be listed] 

Primary Contact: 

John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu) 

Objective: 

• Develop job descriptions for the student workers who will be performing the work vacated by the LTA. 
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Progress: This has been completed for most of the year. They have not been posted to the web page as of yet. That will be the next step. 

• June 2000. Senior LTA is writing up Student job description  for posting to web page.

Associated Library Goal: 

[to be listed] 

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Primary Contact: 

John Freund (johfreu@mai.uflib.ufl.edu) 

Objective:

 

 

 Advanced  training of the SrLTA in order to prepare for more complex  work and treatments.

Progress:  

• May 2000. The SrLTA has completed several large projects this year involving new techniques and training. These projects involved the complete rebinding in leather of Items from the Rare Book collection. These treatments included washing and resizing the paper, resewing the book, rebinding in leather and both gold and blind tooling. 

Associated Library Goal: 

 

 

Performance Measure:

Primary Contact: 

John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu) 

Performance Measure:  

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