Care for your family records

Emergency advice

Emergency Response Tips for Wet or Damaged Objects—Tips for handling wet books, documents, photographs, glass, leather, metals, paintings, etc.

Disaster preparedness

Disaster Resources for the Public, part of Heritage Emergency National Task Force A website with disaster resources for the public in case of hurricane

Essential Records for Families—Safeguarding the records that protect your family’s health, identity, and financial resources

Flood Recovery Booklet from the Northeast Iowa Library Service Area Comprehensive information for the public from evacuation through recovery.

Home Movie Recovery, from AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) Hurricane Relief What to do about your home movie damage

Mitigating Potential Hazards to Materials and Individuals Following a Disaster—Includes links to health assistance and information and disaster preparedness and prevention.

Pocket Response Plan (PReP)—The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) developed this template as part of its Emergency Preparedness Initiative. Side A is an Emergency Communications Plan and Side B provides an Emergency Response Checklist. It can be downloaded in Microsoft Word or as a fillable PDF and customized for any organization, then printed double‐sided on a sheet of legal‐size paper, trimmed and folded to fit into a Tyvek envelope that will fit in a wallet.

Pocket Response Plan for Georgia’s Local Governments

Ready Georgia, the statewide dimension of Ready America, aimed at motivating Georgians to take action to prepare for a disaster.

Resources to Aid in Salvaging Personal Belongings—Links to organizations which can help you with advice on salvaging your belongings after a disaster.

Salvaging Water Damaged Family Photographs—Tips for handling, cleaning, and drying damaged family and historic photographs.

Saving Nebraska’s Treasures, from NET, Nebraska’s PBS & NPR Stations Great site with general preservation tips and videos.

Selected Sources for Recovery—List of disaster recovery services and commercial vendors.

 

Caring for family records

Conservation Treatment at the Georgia Archives ‐YouTube Video of the Treatment of an 1808 Map of Milledgeville

Conservation Treatment of an 1802 Map of Cumberland Island.

Guidelines for Careful Handling of Books

Guidelines for the Careful Handling of Documents

Guidelines for the Careful Handling of Photographic Images

Guidelines for Selecting Storage Supplies

Materials Specifications for Papers and Plastics

Pest and Mold Damage Examples – Images of pest, mold and rust damage on records: what to look for.

Preservation Basics for Paper Based Records

Preservation Services at the Georgia Archives

The Storage Environment


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