Key Reference Sources
Key Sources For Students Of Restoration And Conservation
Notes: The Library catalogue can be consulted for further details of titles in this list.
Dewey class numbers are given in bold.
Locations: all material is located in Commercial Road Library. OWL = One Week Loan [main shelving sequence]. Items shelved in separate sequences: QR = Quick Reference; TD = Trade Directories; SLC = Short Loan Collection at Issue desk
Contents:
SOURCEBOOK
HANDBOOK & DICTIONARY
DIRECTORIES: RESTORATION SKILLS & SERVICES
DIRECTORIES: MUSEUMS
TRAINING
DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Further information on electronic information services
Web Resources [links]
SOURCEBOOK
Conservation sourcebook / The Conservation Unit, Museums and Galleries Commission. Rev ed. HMSO, 1991. A bit dated now, but this guide gives an overview of organisations in the sector.
QR and Loan 069.5302541
HANDBOOK & DICTIONARY
The art and antique restorers' handbook : a dictionary of materials and processes used in the restoration & preservation of all kinds of works of art / by George Savage. Revised ed. Barrie and Jenkins, 1976
QR 069.53
DIRECTORIES: RESTORATION SKILLS & SERVICES
Care and repair : taking care of your home and its contents / [compiled by the Guild of Master Craftsmen] 6th ed. GMC Publications, 1995. [Previous eds. published as: Guide to restoration experts]
338.4774510288
DIRECTORIES: MUSEUMS
Directory of museums, galleries and buildings of historic interest in the United Kingdom / edited by Keith W. Reynard. 4th ed. Europa [for] Aslib, 2008
QR 069.02541 DIR
Museums and galleries yearbook 2005. Museums Association, 2005. 2 Vols.
QR 069.02541
Museums of the world / editor, Michael Zils. 8th ed. K.G. Saur 2001. 2 Vols.
QR 069.025
TRAINING
ICON Training Directory
A list of full-time and some part-time conservation courses and programmes in the United Kingdom
Restauratoren Handbuch. 2006. / Herausgegeben von Friederike Klemm. Callwey Verlag, 2006.
German handbook including international directory of institutions offering training in conservation.
QR 338.4764795RES
DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS
The dictionary of English furniture: from the Middle Ages to the late Georgian period/Ralph Edwards. Antique Collectors Club, 1983. (3 volumes)
QR 749.22
John Gloag's dictionary of furniture/Revised by Clive Edwards. Unwin, 1990
QR 749.2
Furniture collector's glossary/Luke Vincent Lockwood. Da Capo Press, 1967
QR 749.03
Pictorial dictionary of British 18th century furniture design : the printed sources / compiled by Elizabeth White. Antique Collectors' Club, 1990
QR 749.22
Pictorial dictionary of British 19th century furniture design/introduction by Edward Joy. Antique Collectors' Club, 1977
QR, OWL and SLC 749.22
Further information on electronic information services
LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, Integrated Learning Resource Centre, 41-71 Commercial Road, London, E1 1LA. Compiled by Richard Farr.
