BS 4971:2017

BS 4971:2017 gives recommendations for the long term conservation of archive and librarycollections. It gives recommendations for managing conservation of collections, starting withorganizational policy, strategy and planning, which in turn lead to the identification of prioritizedactions and on-going processes that protect collections, such as environmental qualities, repositorymanagement and preventive and remedial treatment projects.It is applicable to traditional archive and library collections, e.g. documents, books, maps, drawings,prints, photographic materials and the carriers of machine readable records in both analogue anddigital format such as video cassettes and CDs.It does not include the preservation of digital information and associated metadata.Cross References:BS EN 168932BS 5699-1:1979BS EN ISO 534:2011BS EN 15095:2007+A1:2008BS ISO 18902:2013BS EN ISO 9706:2000BS ISO 10716:1994BS ISO 18916:2007BS ISO 302:2015BS ISO 18906:2000BS 5699-2:1979BS ISO 12606:1997BS EN 16790:2016BS EN 16095:2012 BS EN 356:2000BS 1153:1992 BS EN 15999-1:2014BS EN 15635:2008PAS 197:2009BS ISO 18911:2010PD CEN/TS 16163:2014BS ISO 18920:2011BS ISO 18918:2000BS EN 15878:2010BS ISO 18934:2011BS 4783-8:1994Replaces BS 4971:2002 and PD 5454:2012 which remain current.