by Sholeen Sanker | Apr 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Week 12/2017: Temperature Rationale: Temperatures that are too low or too high can damage artifacts adversely based on the material of the artifact, often accelerating deterioration. It is important to keep artifacts out of basements and attics where the biggest...
by Sholeen Sanker | Apr 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
Week 11/2017: Preventive Conservation Rationale: Heritage Institution can really only slow the process of deterioration. Preventive conservation is controlling temperature, humidity, light, security, mishandling, and other potentially damaging agents. To review the...
by Sholeen Sanker | Mar 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
Week 8/2017: Isolate any items that are suspected of containing insects or mold. Rationale: If items are thought to contain insects or mold it is imperative to separated into a different room before contamination can occur. Suspect items can then be treat...
by Roger Layton | Apr 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
SPECTRUM is the world-wide best practice standard for managing collections, and it owned and managed by Collections Trust based in London. More than 20,000 museums use SPECTRUM for their museum operations, and after many years it is now undergoing a review leading to...
by Roger Layton | Aug 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
This is the First Announcement and the Call for Papers of our conference “Digitisation Across the Disciplines” which will take place in the Pretoria/Johannesburg region on 1 Dec 2015. Our motivation is to provide a forum for the sharing of knowledge...
by Roger Layton | Jul 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
A major set of recommended changes to the Copyright Act were published on 27 July 2015, with a short 30 days for public comments. This is called the Copyright Amendment Bill 2015 and this is potentially of considerable importance to the heritage sector. You can...
