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Preserving our holdings
Preserving the physical storage media
Providing an appropriate storage environment
Environmental control
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Making surrogate copy and reformatting
Preventive measures to protect archival materials from deterioration
Risk assessment and mitigation
Disaster planning and preparedness
Conservation treatment

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Preserving our holdings

Records that have been identified as having archival value for long-term retention must be kept physically separated from active and inactive records. The preservation of archival records can be considered as a concerted effort of preserving the storage media, providing an appropriate storage environment, transferring the information to an alternative medium (making surrogate or reformatting), implementing preventive measures to protect the materials from deterioration, and formulating and implementing mitigation measures and disaster plan after risk assessment.


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