Preservation Resources

Analog & Magnetic Materials

Storage Standards and Guidelines for Film and Videotape from AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists)

Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets from AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists)

The Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums from the NFPF (National Film Preservation Foundation)

Film Preservation Basics from the NFPF (National Film Preservation Foundation)

Care, Handling, and Storage of Motion Picture Film from the LOC (Library of Congress)

Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling : A Guide for Libraries and Archives

Video Guidance from the National Archives

Motion Picture Guidance from the National Archives

Digital Materials

Preserving Digital Records

Digital Preservation Decision Tree Model to Establish Whether a Digital Resource Should be Preserved

Thirteen Ways of Looking at…Digital Preservation

Three Views of Digital Preservation

Planning Beyond Digitization: Digital Preservation For Audiovisual Collections

Tools for Smaller Budgets: Using Open Source and Free Tools for AV Digital Preservation Workflows