Click below by chapter for additional resources to enhance your reading experience and to aid you in creating your family or personal archive.

Resource Topics

Chapter 2-Organization

Chapter 3-Photographs

Chapter 7-Paper

Chapter 12-Born Digital

Chapter 13-Estate Planning

Chapter 14-Disaster Preparedness & Recovery

Extra: Chapter on Archiving Metals

Chapter 2-Organization

• Create a Finding Aid in Excel VIDEO
• The Survey Spreadsheet VIDEO
• Sample Finding Aids
  • Chase, Elizabeth Buffum
  • Greene, Christopher A
  • Hazard, Thomas G
  • Waterman
  • Wetmore-Sherman
  • Whiting, Woolhouse Webster
  • Winsor, Thomas K
  • Woods, Alva

Chapter 3-Photographs

• A Consumer Guide for the Recovery of Water-Damaged Traditional and Digital Prints by Image Permanence Institute

• DIY Moisture Chamber
• Smithsonian Demo on Removing Stuck Photos Using Dental Floss

Chapter 7-Paper

• DIY Moisture Chamber
• Preserving Books in Your Home Library – Cornell University

Chapter 12-Born Digital

• Converting Word Documents to PDF VIDEO

Chapter 13-Estate Planning

• Everything You Need to Know About Password Managers – Consumer Reports
• Setting Up Password Spreadsheet VIDEO

Chapter 14 – Disaster Preparedness and Recovery

• American Red Cross – Repairing Your Flooded Home
• How to Make and Use a Precipitated Calcium Carbonate Silver Polish
• Salvage & Stabilize Audio and Visual Media

Extra: Chapter on Archving Metals

• Chapter Content

• How to Make and Use a Precipitated Calcium Carbonate Silver Polish