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What should I do with paper ephemera? Looking after ephemera in a library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Liz Yamada
Liz Yamada*
Affiliation:
London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB, UK
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Email: liz.yamada@cityoflondon.gov.uk
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Abstract

Looking after ephemera collections can seem quite daunting; their contents come in all shapes and sizes and they are designed to be ‘here today, gone tomorrow’. The definition of ephemera in the Oxford pocket dictionary is ‘things of only short-lived use’, which is disheartening when we are trying to preserve these fascinating items for posterity. However, there is a lot of information available about preservation and much of this is applicable to ephemera collections.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 31 , Special Issue 4: Ephemera as a research resource: special issue , 2006, pp. 14 - 20
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2006

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Further Reading

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