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Useful World Wide Web Resources
The Internet contains a wealth of information that Alta Vista can be useful to museum and preservation http://www.altavista.digital.com professionals. Featured is a carefully selected list of web sites that are relevant to cultural resource Excite professionals. Due to the ever-changing nature of http://www.excite.com the Internet, some of these web site addresses may have changed since the date of this Infoseek publication, and may be best located through a http://www.infoseek.com search engine. The web site address for all Conserve O Gram leaflets is: GoTo < http://www.er.nps.gov/csd/publications/index. http://www.goto.com htm>. Webcrawler As with any resource, use only the most reliable http://www. webcrawler. com data. In order to ensure that the information you come across is valid, there are many questions Web Site Addresses you should keep in mind when undertaking internet research: Can you verify the information The World Wide Web is an invaluable resource. in another place or with another source? Who is The sites listed below are not meant to be the sponsor of the site? Are these people or comprehensive; they are merely a good place to groups trying to sell a product or service, or do start your search. they have a vested interest in the subject? How old is the data and when was the last update to the Archeology web page? These are important considerations to Archnet make, especially if you are considering a http:// archnet. uconn. edu potentially irreversible conservation procedure. There is a lot of misinformation on the web. NPS Archeology and Ethnography Program http://www. er. nps. gov/ aad Search Engines Architecture You can conduct your own searches using American Institute of Architects internet search engines. These sites will enable http://www. aiaonline. com you to seek out additional information on your own. For up-to-date information about search HABS/HAER collection engines, visit Search Engine Watch: News, Tips http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/ and More about Search Engines at hhhome.html < http://www. searchenginewatch. com > . Following are a few search engine· addresses that Society of Architectural Historians you should find helpful. http:/ /www.sah.org National Park Service Conserve O Gram 117
Archives and Manuscripts National Trust forHistoric Preservation: Archival and Conservation Resources Disaster Preparedness Bibliography http://ils.unc.edu/archives/archives .html http://museum-security.org/disasterbib. html Care and Preservation of Archival Materials Massachusetts Library & Information Network: http://www.hfmgv.org/histories/cis/ archival.html Preservation, Disaster & Archives Web Sites http://mlin.lib.ma.us/noflash.html Directory of Regional, State and Local Archival Organizations Education/Training http:/ /sophia.smith. edur pnelson/regionals/ Campbell Center forHistoric Preservation usa.htm Studies http://www.campbellcenter.org National Archives and Records Administration http://www .nara.gov National Center for Preservation Technology and Training National Union Catalog of Manuscript http://www.ncptt. nps. gov Collections http://lcweb.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html University of Victoria http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp Society of American Archivists http://www.archivists.org Funding Institute of Museum and Library Services Conservation http://www.imls. fed.us Canadian Conservation Institute http://www.pch . gc. ca/cci-icc/ National Endowment for the Arts english/ENGLISH. HTM http://arts.endow.gov National Endowment for the Humanities Conservation On Line (CoOL) http://www.neh.fed .us http://pal impsest.stanford.edu National Historical Publications and Records Getty Conservation Institute Commission http://www.getty.edu/gci http://www.nara.gov/nara/nhprc Heritage Preservation National Science Foundation http://www.heritagepreservation. org http://www.nsf. gov Northeast Document Conservation Center http://www.nedcc.org Health/Safety Art, Craft, and Theater Safety Rocky Mountain Conservation Center http://www.caseweb.com/acts/index.html http://www.du. edu/rmcc/techbulls.htm Center forDisease Control http://www.cdc.gov Cultural Resource Management (CRM) American Cultural Resources Management Center forSafety in the Arts http://www. mindspring. netr wheaton http://www.arts wire.org :70/ csa
Disaster Planning and Recovery Material Safety Data Sheets Emergency Response http://msds. pdc . cornell. edu/issearch/ http://www.nic.org/Emergency/whee l.html msdssrch.htm
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Occupational Health & Safety Administration Library of Congress http://www. osha.gov http://www.lac.gov
Historic Preservation Native American Graves Protection and Advisory Council on Historic Preservation RepatriationAct (NAGPRA) http://www.achp . gov Archnet http://archnet .uconn. edu/topical/ crm/usdocs/ National Register of Historic Places nagpra14.htm http://www.er.nps.gov/nr/nrhome.html National Archeological Database National Trust for Historic Preservation http://www.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nagpra http://www. nthp.org
PreserveNet Natural History http://www.preservenet. cornell. edu Natural History Museums http://www. ucmp.berkeley . edu/ subway/ Integrated Pest Management nathistmus.html Pest Control http:/ /palimpsest. stanford.edu/bytopic/pest Professional Societies & Organizations in Natural History Integrated Pest Management http://www.ucmp .berkeley . edu/subway I http://www. nedcc.org/tleaf3 11.htm nathistorg.html
Pesticide Education Resources Society for the Preservation of Natural History http://ianrwww.unl.edu/ianr/pat/ephome.htm Collections http://www.spnhc.org Laws/Regulations Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Organizations http://www. access.gpo . gov/nara/ cfr American Association of Museums (AAM) http://www.aam-us .org Thomas (legislative information) http://thomas .loc . gov American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) United States Code (USC) http://www.aaslh.org http:/ /uscode.house .gov /use .htm
U.S. House of Representatives International Council of Museums (ICOM) http://clerkweb .house .gov http://www.icom.org
U.S. Senate Museum Computer Network (MCN) http://www. senate.gov http://world. std.comrmcn
Libraries/Research Society for American Archeologists (SAA) American Memory http://www .saa.org http://memory .loc . gov/ ammem Reference lnf ormation Smithsonian Institution Libraries Bartlett's Familiar Quotations http://www. sil.si. edu http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett
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Liszt (Internet mailing list directory) University Products http://www.liszt. com http://www.universityproducts .com
Merriam-Webster English Dictionary Listservs http://www.m-w . com/netdict.htm Listservs are forums on the Internet for groups of National Weather Service people with a common interest to share http://www.nws.noaa.gov information via e-mail. The term listserv comes from one popular type of software used to Readings in Preservation administer such lists. To subscribe to a listserv, http://www. solinet.net/presvtn/leaf /presbib . htm send the line in quotes in the text of your message - not in the subject line - to the address listed. Research-It For example, to subscribe to Archives, send the http://www. itools. com/ research-it/ following: research-it. html Roget's Thesaurus "Subscribe ARCHIVES (Your Name)" http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms _ unrest/ ROGET.html Archives listserv@listserv. muohio.edu U.S. Census Bureau "Subscribe ARCHIVES (Your Name)" http://www.census.gov Conservation DistList Security/Fire Protection [email protected]. edu Museum Security Network "Subscribe CONSDIST (Your Name)" http://museum-security.org Museum-L National Fire Protection Association listserv@home. ease. lsoft.com http://www.nfpa. org "Subscribe MUSEUM-L (Your Name)"
Vendors/Products Fisher Scientific Linda Norbut Suits http://www.fisher 1. com Supervisory Museum Curator National Park Service GovernmentPrinting Office Lincoln Home National Historic Site http://www.gpo.gov 413 South Eighth Street Springfield, IL 62701-1905 Preservation/Conservation Links http://www. dreamscape.com/pdverhey / Abby Sue Fisher pressite.htm Midwest Support Office Curator National Park Service Preservation Supply and Service Vendors 175 East Fifth Street http://www. archives.state .ut. us/preserv / Suite 418, Box 41 zpresuan. htm St. Paul, MN 55101
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