With thanks to our sponsor, Bruynzeel, and our superb hosts The National Archives, the National Library of Wales and MALD, National Galleries Scotland and the National Gallery of Ireland, the series of four conferences across the UK and Ireland this
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After seven years of dialogue, debate and the last leg of the lengthy, two-stage voting process, the replacement for BS5454 has finally been approved for publication.  With no national votes against its launch and 16 nations all voting in favour
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BS 4971:2017 has arrived!  This wholly revised standard is now called 'Conservation & Care of Archive & Library Collections'. Previously BS4971 covered technical details of conservation treatments.  Over the decades since
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Chris Woods, NCS Director Time and again I go to archives, libraries and museums and find that their building managers, or project directors (in the case of e.g. HLF funded projects) have engaged mechanical engineers to design and install air condit
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