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These how to guides can help you preserve and care for your collections at home or work.

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Interior view of Ashley, a residence at Indooroopilly
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Negative number: 73864
Looking after your collections
These information guides offer advice on preserving and storing your precious items.
- General care of your collections - Overview
- Paper based collections
- Books and bound material
- Parchment documents
- Caring for your collections - photographs
- Digital prints
- Magnetic media (audio cassettes, VHS and magnetic tape)
- Motion picture film
- Preservation planning for large collections
- Children's artwork collections (children’s artwork on paper)
Digital Preservation
Learn how to preserve your digital photographs, emails, recordings, and documents.
Photographer: Grant Collins
State Library of Queensland Reformatting team staff member digitising items with the Kirtas bookscaner
State Library of Queensland

Photographer: Troy Hansen
John Bellas carrying a pile of ruined books in his flooded home at Fairfield, 2011
John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
Image number: 27804-0001-0013
Disaster recovery
These guides outline steps to salvage water-damaged paper, book, photographic, and audiovisual collections.
Preventive Conservation
These guides assist with planning for preservation before disaster strikes.

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Rat dogs pictured with their handlers, ca. 1905
Negative number: 33420