Book Preservation

Book Preservation is a subfield of preservation and book history that comprises the theories, policies, and practices aimed at prolonging the physical and informational life of books as cultural artifacts through preventive conservation, appropriate storage and handling, and, where necessary, conservation or reformatting interventions.

220

Publications

7.2K

Citations

343

Authors

144

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Book History

Children

Bookbinding ConservationDigitization PreservationHistoric Binding StructuresPaper StabilizationReformatting For Preservation

Publications

220

Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical

Dagmar Barnouw, James Olney, Manfred Jurgensen · The German Quarterly · 1981 · 394 citations

Humanities, History, Book History +11

The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century

Amy Vladeck Heinrich, Peter Kornicki · Journal of Japanese Studies · 2000 · 172 citations

Humanities, Cultural Studies, History +15

Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical

P. Rudnytsky, James Olney · World Literature Today · 1981 · 171 citations

Humanities, History, Book History +11

Preservation in the Age of Google: Digitization, Digital Preservation, and Dilemmas

Paul Conway · The Library Quarterly · 2009 · 161 citations · Full text

Architecture, Heritage Conservation, Conservation Theory +16

Accession, classification, location : shelfmarks in medieval libraries

Richard Bowdler Sharpe · Scriptorium · 1996 · 132 citations

Humanities, Medieval Studies, Book History +9

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Authors

343

BJ
Bruce J. Humphrey
Wellcome Sanger Institute, United Kingdom
4 publications · 66 citations
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Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Online Computer Library Center, United States
4 publications · 182 citations
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JO
James Olney
4 publications · 639 citations
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GM
G. Magaudda
2 publications · 183 citations
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GN
Geoffrey Nunberg
Palo Alto Research Center, United States
2 publications · 132 citations
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Institutions

144

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Venues

College & Research Libraries
10 publications · 320 citations
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Studies in Conservation
7 publications · 173 citations
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Restaurator International Journal for the Preservation of Library and Archival Material
6 publications · 155 citations
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Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 5 publications · 259 citations
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The Journal of Academic Librarianship
5 publications · 236 citations
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