Michèle Valerie Cloonan is a professor in the School of Library and Information Science, College of Organizational, Computational, and Information Sciences, and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University. She studied humanities at Bennington College (AB) and the University of Chicago (AM) and has an MS and a PhD in library and information science from the University of Illinois. She was a conservator at the Newberry Library, a preservation
administrator at Brown University libraries, and a rare book curator at Smith College. At UCLA she was associate professor and chair of Information Studies. In 2010, she was awarded the Paul Banks-Carolyn Harris Preservation Award from the American Library Association. Her book, Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age (ALA/Neal Schuman), received the 2016 Society of American Archivists’ Preservation Publication Award. In 2018, she published The Monumental Challenge of Preservation: The Past in a Volatile World (MIT Press), winner of the University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation Book Prize. More recently, a case study book that she coauthored with Peter Botticelli, Martha Mahard, and Simmons students, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Today: Insights from the Field, was published by Rowman & Littlefield.


Elizabeth Joffrion is the director of Heritage Resources and associate professor at Western Washington University where she leads the Libraries’
Special Collections, University Archives and Record Center, and the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies. Prior to this position, she was a senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access where she coordinated the Preservation Assistance
Grants Program. She has held professional positions at the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery, the
North Carolina State Archives and the Historic New Orleans Collection, and has also taught courses on archives and special collections at Catholic University and Western Washington University. She received an MA in history from the University of New Orleans and a MLIS from the University of Maryland.

FOREWORD: The Evolution of a Book Series . vii
Peter J. Wosh

SECTION I: Preservation Frameworks

1 The Topography of Preservation Today . . . 1
2 History of Archival Preservation . . . . . 9
3 Principles of Archival Preservation . . 29
4 Context for Archival Preservation . . . . 44

SECTION II: Implementing and Managing a Preservation Program

5 Planning and Developing a Preservation Program .69
6 Administering a Preservation Program . . .. . . 89
7 Preserving Analog and Digital Media . . . 104
8 Risk Management: A Programmatic Approach . . 128

SECTION III: The Ethics and Moral Implications of Contemporary Preservation Practices

9 Sustainable Preservation Practices . . . 141
10 The Right to Preserve: Who Decides? . . . 159
11 Final Remarks. . . 172

APPENDIXES

A Example Collection Development Policy . . 177
B Example Preservation Policy . . . . . . 178
C Example Digital Preservation Policy . . . . 180

Bibliography . . . . 185
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .. . . . . . 214
ABOUT THE AUTHORS . . . . . .215
INDEX . . . . . . . . . .216