Book Conservation

Book Conservation is a subfield of conservation within Book Arts and Book History that focuses on the scientific and ethically governed stabilization, repair, and preventive care of physical books and related textual artifacts in order to prolong their material life while preserving as much as possible their original structure, materials, and historical integrity.

Publications

1.4K

Citations

107

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Publications per year

2017–2026

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Book ArtsBook History

Children

Collection SurveyingHistorical Binding StructuresInk StabilityInterventive ConservationLeaf CastingLight Damage MitigationLining StructuresPigment Conservation

Publications

Books from an environmental perspective—Part 2: e-books as an alternative to paper books

Åsa Moberg, Clara Borggren, Göran Finnveden · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment · 2011 · 70 citations

Humanities, Environmental Management, Environmental Education +10

Effect of Gamma Rays on Pure Cellulose Paper as a Model for the Study of a Treatment of “Biological Recovery” of Biodeteriorated Books

Ana M. Adamo, Massimo Giovannotti, G. Magaudda et al. · Restaurator International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material · 1998 · 68 citations

Agriculture, Historic Preservation, Food Preservation +11

Copyrights and competition : producing and protecting children's books in the nineteenth century

Aileen Fyfe · St Andrews Research Repository (St Andrews Research Repository) · 1999 · 51 citations

Humanities, Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law +12

The Yale Survey: A Large-Scale Study of Book Deterioration in the Yale University Library

Robin Gay Walker, Jane Greenfield, John Fox et al. · College & Research Libraries · 1985 · 51 citations · Full text

Architecture, Heritage Conservation, Condition Assessment +15

Books from an environmental perspective—Part 1: environmental impacts of paper books sold in traditional and internet bookshops

Clara Borggren, Åsa Moberg, Göran Finnveden · The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment · 2011 · 50 citations

Humanities, Environmental Management, Environmental Sciences +12

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Authors

107

ÅM
Åsa Moberg
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
2 publications · 120 citations
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Göran Finnveden
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
2 publications · 120 citations
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CB
Clara Borggren
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
2 publications · 120 citations
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WM
Wilhelm Moll
1 publications · 11 citations
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Sherelyn Ogden
1 publications · 16 citations
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Venues

Studies in Conservation
4 publications · 90 citations
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College & Research Libraries
4 publications · 91 citations
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Restaurator International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material
3 publications · 103 citations
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The Paper Conservator
2 publications · 27 citations
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The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment
LCA · 2 publications · 120 citations
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