MDA: Standards in Collections Care Series Available Online

The MDA have made the Standards in Museum Care of Collections
series available from the Collections Link website at:
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/conserve_objects/standards_colls_care

The series was originally published in the 1990s by the Museums and
Galleries Commission (MGC), now the Museums, Libraries and Archives
Council (MLA) and cover:

* Archaeological Collections
* Biological Collections
* Geological Collections
* Larger and Working Objects
* Touring Exhibitions
* Photographic Collections
* Musical Instrument Collections
* Costume and Textile Collections

Also recently added is a section on Emergency Planning, highlighting resources
from outside the cultural sector:
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/plan_for_emergencies

and the London Screen Archives guide to caring for moving image
collections:
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/special_collection/photo_film