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Flavio Marzo

Published On

2018-04-16

Page Range

pp. 113-120

Print Length

7 pages

4. Collection care and document handling

  • Flavio Marzo (author)
Chapter of: Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations (pp. 113–120)

Chapter 4 provides the next logical step: how to handle your target collection with care and ensure none of it is inadvertently damaged in the digitisation process. Different items have different suggestions on how to handle and clean them. This chapter offers a brief outline of conservation principles and methods, and provides specific advice for caring for dirty and dusty materials, pictures and glass plate negatives, loose-leaf items, and bound items. Consideration is also given to methods of handling, when or when not to wear gloves, and what to keep in mind when housing and archiving materials.

Contributors

Flavio Marzo

(author)
Conservation Studio Manager for the Qatar Digitisation Project at British Library

Flavio Marzo was born in Susa near Turin in Italy. He now lives in London where he has been working for the British Library since 2005 and became an ICON accredited conservator in 2012. He previously worked in prominent institutions such as the Vatican Library and the libraries of The Queen's and Magdalen Colleges in Oxford, and also as private conservator/restorer in the Benedictine Monastery of Novalesa in Italy. He has also been involved in several conservation projects in Italy, Greece and Egypt as conservator, consultant and teacher. In 2012, Flavio was appointed Conservation Studio Manager for the Qatar Digitisation Project within the British Library/Qatar Foundation partnership. He is also the author of a number of articles published in conservation journals.