CCI Notes. Capsule documents on conservation collections care from the Canadian Conservation Institute, and available in print or electronic form:
- CCI Bookstore

The Care of Prints and Drawings (Margaret H Ellis)
- 1987 Edition

Caring for Your Family Treasures (Jane S Long & Richard W Long)
- 2000 Edition

Exhibit Makeovers: A Do-It-Yourself Workbook for Small Museums (JJ Flowers & A Parman)
- 2008 Edition

Field Guide to Emergency Response (Heritage Preservation)
- 2006 Edition

Heritage Eaters: Insects and Fungi In Heritage Collections (Mary-Lou Florian)
- 1997 Edition

Mount-making for Museum Objects (Robert Barclay, Andre Bergeron, Carol Dignard)
- 2002 Edition

National Trust Manual of Housekeeping: The Care of Collections in Historic Houses Open to the Public. Guide to the preservation of social history collections and interiors of historic buildings. Some very useful information.
- 2005 Edition
- 1999 Edition

National Park Service Exhibit Conservation Guidelines (CD-ROM). A CD-ROM guide to building artifact-preserving display cases.
- NPS website

Photographs: Archival Care and Management (Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler, et al.)
- 2006 Edition

A Practical Guide to Costume Mounting (Lara Flecker)
- 2006 Edition

Preservation Management for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GE Gorman & Sydney J Shep, eds.)
- 2006 Edition

Saving Stuff: How to Care for and Preserve Your Collectibles, Heirlooms, and Other Prized Possessions (Don Williams & Louisa Jaggar)
- 2005 Edition

The Winterthur Guide to Caring for Your Collection (GL Landrey)
- 2000 Edition

General Conservation & Housing Suppliers

This list is to be used as a guide only. It does not serve as a list of recommendations or endorsements. Please contact the companies directly for more information.

AGM Container Controls: humidity indicator cards

Archivart: papers, tissues, rolling tubes, conservation supplies

Art Preservation Services: silica gel, humidity measurement devices

Benchmark: book stands, exhibit supplies and supports

Conservator’s Emporium: adhesives

Conservation Resources: various exhibition, mounting and storage supplies, fine tools, conservation supplies

Gaylord: Fine tools, conservation supplies, library supplies and furniture

Hiromi Paper: Japanese paper, wheat starch paste, fine tools

Hollinger Corporation: archival storage supplies (boxes, folders, interleaving)

Masterpak: art and artifact packaging and shipping

Metal Edge: archival storage supplies (boxes, folders, interleaving)

Republic Packaging Corp: ethafoam, 1/8" polythene foam

Talas: fine tools, conservation supplies

Testfabrics: fabrics

University Products: various exhibition, mounting and storage supplies, archival tape

Archival Box-Making Supplies

This list is to be used as a guide only. It does not serve as a list of recommendations or endorsements. Please contact the companies directly for more information.

Archival cardboard
Multipurpose corrugated board 40x60" single wall 15/carton 7-0014
E-Flute Corrugated Board 40x60" single wall 25/pk 612-4060E
Coroplast® 48" x 96" x 10 mm sheet

Archival Foam
Polyethylene foam roll 1/8" x 54" x 300' cut into two: 36" wide & 18" wide
Ethafoam 220 white plank 2 x 48 x 108"
Ethafoam 220 white plank 4 x 48 x 108"

Foam Tri-rod
3/4" tri-rod
1-1/2" tri-rod
2" tri-rod

Cutting tools
Utility knife 5098A26
10 Blades 24995A53
Cutting mat 52055
FSC wall-mounted substrate cutter 04-720

Hot melt glue guns & glue sticks
Polygun LT (low temperature glue gun) 7477A41
Polygun LC (high temperature glue gun) 733A11
Polygun EC (low and high temperature gun) 7464A67
3792LM lower temperature glue stick (for corrugated paper boards) 7464A65
3764 higher temperature glue stick (for Coroplast) 7333A42

Press-to-Close Polyethylene Bag Mark-on, 4 MIL or 6 MIL
Various sizes from 2" x 3" 1959T47 to 12" x 15" 14555T16

Box & Bag Labeling Pens
Sharpie Permanent Markers (Fine & Extra Fine point)
Sakura Pigma Micron Pens