Institutes & associations

• Canadian Conservation Institute
• Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute
• Conservation OnLine (CoOL)
• American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
• Getty Conservation Institute
• The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)
• Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS)
• Collections Trust (UK)
• Institute of Conservation (ICON, UK)
• International Centre for the Study of Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)

Databases

• AATA online: Abstracts of international conservation literature (Getty Conservation Institute)
• BCIN: Bibliographic database of the Conservation Information Network

Standards, vocabularies & dictionaries

• Core standards for Canadian museums (Government of Canada)
• Guide to museum standards (CHIN)
• Spectrum: The UK museum documentation standard (Collections Trust)
• Descriptive and visual dictionary of objects (Parks Canada)
• Nomenclature 4.0 for museum cataloguing: Tutorials  (AASLH). The book is in the U of T Library Catalogue.
• Getty vocabularies (Getty Institute, USA)
• Terminologies (Collections Trust, UK)
• Visual glossary of conservation (AICCM)

Other resources

• Museology and conservation (Government of Canada)
• Museum handbook - on collections, records, & collections use (National Parks Service)
• Preservation and conservation resources (Government of Canada)
• CAMEO: Conservation and Art Materials Encyclopedia Online
• Teaching and learning resources (Getty Conservation Institute)
• Collections management (Collections Trust, UK)
• Developing a collections management policy (AAM)
• Benchmarks in collections care 2.0 (Collections Trust, UK)
• Choose collections software (Collections Trust, UK)
• Care and conservation documents (for a variety of object-types and materials) (ICON)
• Care and handling of your collections (BCMA)
• Deaccessioning guidelines (CMA)

Here are some of recommended subject headings to find books in the U of T Libraries catalogue. Do not include the hyphens in the subject headings in your search.

• Museums -- Collection management
• Museums -- Collection management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Museum registration methods
• Museum techniques -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
• Museums -- Conservation methods
• Collectors and collecting

• Museum conservation methods
• Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration
• Historic preservation
• Antiques -- Conservation and restoration
• Art objects -- Conservation and restoration
• Cultural property --  Protection

​To find articles on this topic, use similar subject words in the recommended databases.