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Airborne pollutants in museums, galleries, and archives : risk assessment, control strategies, and preservation management / by Jean Tétreault.NM95-59/9-2003E-PDF

"The goals of this book are to: define key airborne pollutants for indoor museum environments; supply tools based on the exposure-effect relationship to assess the risk to collections exposed to pollutants; establish guidelines for control strategies that give flexible, pragmatic solutions; offer guidelines for assessing the degree of protection of collections; provide a basic tool for cost-benefit analysis that fulfils the principles and the policy of the museum; propose an investigative approach for evaluating the degree of preservation of collections in terms of the aggressiveness of pollutants and for identifying causes of damage"--Preface, page 1.

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Department/Agency
  • Canadian Conservation Institute, issuing body.
TitleAirborne pollutants in museums, galleries, and archives : risk assessment, control strategies, and preservation management / by Jean Tétreault.
Publication typeMonograph
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Issued also in French under title: Polluants dans les musees et les archives, evaluation des risques, strategies de controle et gestion de la preservation.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Publishing information
  • Ottawa : Canadian Conservation Institute = Institut canadien de conservation, 2003.
  • ©2003
Author / Contributor
  • Tétreault, Jean, 1963- author.
Description1 online resource (168 pages) : charts, illustrations
Catalogue number
  • NM95-59/9-2003E-PDF
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