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Building, Adobe -- Conservation and restoration

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• Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2000), by E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, Frederick A. Webster, and William S. Ginell (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Terra 2008: The 10th International Conference on the Study and Conservation of Earthen Architectural Heritage (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute/Getty Publication, c2011), ed. by Leslie Rainer, Angelyn Bass Rivera, and David Gandreau (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture: Adobe 90 Preprints (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1990) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

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• Survey of Damage to Historic Adobe Buildings After the January 1994 Northridge Earthquake (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1996), by E. Leroy Tolles, Frederick A. Webster, Anthony Crosby, and Edna E. Kimbro (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture: Adobe 90 Preprints (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1990) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• Conservation as Cultural Survival (1980), ed. by Renata Holod (PDF at archnet.org)

• Conservation as Cultural Survival (1980), ed. by Renata Holod (PDF at archnet.org)

• Space for Freedom: The Search for Architectural Excellence in Muslim Societies, by Ismail Serageldin (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)

• Die Denkmalpflege (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• Architectural and Urban Conservation in the Islamic World (1990), ed. by Abu H. Imamuddin and Karen R. Longeteig (PDF at archnet.org)

• Airborne Particles in Museums (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1993), by W. W. Nazaroff, Mary P. Ligocki, Lynn G. Salmon, Glen Rowan Cass, Theresa Fall, Michael C. Jones, Harvey I. H. Liu, and Timothy Ma (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1986), by Philip R. Ward (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Metallography and Microstructure of Ancient and Historic Metals (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute and Archetype Books, c1991), by David A. Scott (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Monitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museum Environments (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2006), by Cecily M. Grzywacz (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; et al., c1998), contrib. by Jonathan Bloom, Aḥmad Tawfīq, Stefano Carboni, Jack Soultanian, Antoine M. Wilmering, Mark D. Minor, Andrew Zawacki, and El Mostafa Hbibi (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992), by Homer A. Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992), by Homer A. Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• Boxes for the Protection of Books: Their Design and Construction (Washington, DC: Preservation Directorate, Collections Services, Library of Congress, 1994), by Lage Carlson, John Bertonaschi, Margot Healey, Lynn Kidder, Nancy Lev, Bob Muens, Carol Paulson-Crawford, and Carrie Beyer, illust. by Margaret R. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Care and Repair of Books (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1946), by Harry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer (page images at CMU)
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Enemies of Books (1888 edition), by William Blades
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010), ed. by Neville Agnew (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Early Gothic Saint-Denis: Restorations and Survivals (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Pamela Z. Blum (HTML at UC Press)

• The Church of the Holy Apostles (Athenian Agora series, v20: Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1971), by Alison Frantz (PDF in Greece)

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (updated version, September 2008), by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.), Joint Information Systems Committee, OAK Law Project, and Stichting SURF (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)

• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (PDF at clir.org)

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• The Future of Asia's Past: Preservation of the Architectural Heritage of Asia (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1995), ed. by Miguel Angel Corzo (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Of the Past, For the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2006), ed. by Neville Agnew and Janet Bridgland (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (2008), by Oya Y. Rieger (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Manuscripts and Documents: Their Deterioration and Restoration (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, c1955), by W. J. Barrow (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Conservation of Artifacts Made from Plant Materials (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1990), by Mary-Lou E. Florian, Dale Paul Kronkright, and Ruth E. Norton (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, ed. by Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Inert Gases in the Control of Museum Insect Pests (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1998), by Charles Selwitz and Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, ed. by Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Navajo National Monument: A Place and Its People, by Hal Rothman (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Protection of Works of Art From Atmospheric Ozone (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1989), by Glen Rowan Cass, James R. Druzik, Daniel Grosjean, W. W. Nazaroff, Paul M. Whitmore, and Cynthia L. Wittman (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (second edition, 2006), by Franziska S. Frey and James M. Reilly (PDF at imagepermanenceinstitute.org)

• Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (second edition, 2006), by Franziska S. Frey and James M. Reilly (PDF at imagepermanenceinstitute.org)

• Aztec Ruins National Monument: Administrative History of an Archeological Preserve (1990), by Robert H. Lister and Florence C. Lister
  • illustrated HTML at nps.gov
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• E-Journal Archiving Metes and Bounds: A Survey of the Landscape (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2006), by Anne R. Kenney, Richard Entlich, Peter B. Hirtle, Nancy Y. McGovern, and Ellie L. Buckley (PDF at clir.org)

• Capturing Analog Sound for Digital Preservation: Report of a Roundtable Discussion of Best Practices for Transferring Analog Discs and Tapes (2006) (PDF at clir.org)

• Epoxy Resins in Stone Conservation (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1992), by Charles Selwitz (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• Stone Conservation: An Overview of Current Research (second edition; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010), by Eric Ferguson Doehne and C. A. Price (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Stone Conservation: An Overview of Current Research (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1996), by C. A. Price (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

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