GLOSSARY

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This glossary contains some of the most common terms used in the conservation and musuem professions and some organisational information. Wherever possible, simple language rather than highly technical terms has been used. Many sources have been used in its compilation including:

• CTA Training Manual prototype.

• Chambers Dictionary of Science and Technology, Collocott, T.C. and Dobson, A.B. (Ed), ISBN 0 550 13202 3 (1974).

• Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books. A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington. Drawings by Margaret R. Brown, http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/don.html

• One Look Dictionaries, http://www.onelook.com

• The Macquarie Dictionary. Macquarie Library Pty Ltd.

• Wendy Smith, Library Preservation Glossary prepared for the Preservation Management course of The University of New South Wales (unpublished).