AIC: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. “How to Choose a Conservator.” Accessed December 2, 2012. http://www.conservation-us.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.ViewPage&PageID=1345.
This source provides recommendations for finding and contacting a conservator. A link for searching for local conservators is provided.
American Alliance of Museums. “Collections Stewardship.” Accessed December 12, 2012. http://www.aam-us.org/resources/ethics-standards-and-best-practices/characteristics-of-excellence-for-u-s-museums/collections-stewardship.
Details the standards and best practices that museums should follow with regards to their collections, and notes that these standards are dependent on the particular discipline, size, physical facilities, geographic location, and financial and human resources of the museum. As CUHCS collects physical objects, the AAM collections standards would be an appropriate model for the society to adhere.
Baca, M. Cataloging Cultural Objects : A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2006.
Cataloging Cultural Objects offers an in-depth guide to how to catalog materials that might have a cultural significance within a community. This guide would be helpful in determining the appropriate information to include in a record for an object (like a clock). It would help define the difference between the physical object and its digital surrogate.
Betts, Jonathan. “Problems in the Conservation of Clocks and Watches.” The Conservator 9, no. 1 (1985): 36-44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01410096.1985.9995002.
This source is an article in a journal that addresses the problems encountered when restoring or conserving clocks and watches. It provides a guideline that could be used by individuals or organizations when performing this work.
Bruton, Eric. Collector’s Dictionary of Clocks and Watches. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1999.
This work contains a wealth of information for users ranging from the horologist to those with a more general interest in clocks. It includes technical as well as specialist terms, and an overview of the history of horology.
California Digital Library. “CDL Digital File Format Recommendations: Master Production Files.” Accessed December 2, 2012. http://www.cdlib.org/gateways/docs/cdl_dffr.pdf.
This source provides recommendations for standards for creating preservation master copies of files. Recommendations are provided for graphic, textual, audio, and video files.
Digital Preservation Management. “Digital Preservation Management Tutorial.” Accessed December 2, 2012. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm.
This source is a web tutorial that explains the definition and important terms of digital preservation, methods for preserving digital materials, and has recommendations for managing digital preservation. It won the 2004 SAA Preservation Publication Award.
Du, Ruxu and Xie Longhan. The Mechanics of Mechanical Watches and Clocks. Berlin: Springer, 2013.
This book, available as an e-resource, provides an in-depth introduction to the mechanics of horology and the parts and pieces that go into clock preservation. We will consult this resource and others like it during the process of developing our controlled vocabulary, so as to provide the best subject access for professional clock collectors and makers.
Friedman, Alan J. “The Clockwork Universe.” Technology and Culture 25, no. 2 (Apr., 1984): 280-286. http: //ww.jstor.org.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/stable/3104715.
This source is an article in a journal. The article acknowledges that people visiting clocks want to know why the clock is important, context is everything. The author describes how the Smithsonian Institute communicated meaning to museum visitors for the clocks in its display.
Getty Research Institute. “Art and Architecture Thesaurus.” Accessed December 5, 2012. http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/.
This resource inventories the controlled vocabulary developed by the Getty Research Institute to provide subject access to cultural artifacts and art objects, such as those found in museums. It provided a framework for understanding subject access to realia from which we will develop our controlled vocabulary for the project.
Harding, Keith. “Restoration, New Clocks for Old.” Antique Clocks: The Magazine for Horological Collectors and Restorers 11, no. 3 (1988): 20-24.
This source discusses the issue of restoration versus conservation as it applies to clocks.
Harpring, P. “CCO Overview and Description. ” Visual Resources Association Bulletin 34, no. 1 (2007): 34-44. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lxh&AN=27697316&site=ehost-live.
This article covers the basics of Cataloging Cultural Objects as described in the book. The explanations of minimal descriptions and database design were very helpful to organizing the clock collection.
ICON: The Institute of Conservation. “Care and Conservation of Clocks.” Accessed December 2, 2012. http://www.conservationregister.com/downloads/clocks.pdf.
This source provides basic information and tips for caring for the different parts of the clock. Website addresses are provided for locating clock conservators for serious repair problems.
Library of Congress. “Keeping Personal Digital Photographs.” Accessed December 2, 2012. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/personalarchiving/photos.html.
This source provides recommendations for preserving, storing, and organizing personal digital photographs.
Miller, Andrew Hayes. Illinois Horology: A Brief View into the Land of Lincoln. Columbia, PA: National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, 1977.
This resource provides information about manufacturers of clocks in Illinois.
The National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors, Inc. “Welcome to NAWCC.” Accessed December 11, 2012. http://www.nawcc.org.
This is the webpage of the NAWCC, and includes resources, publications, and virtual access to the library, research center, and the National Watch & Clock Museum, in Colombia. The site also includes surrogate images of various examples of clocks along with several digital videos which provide a virtual tour of clock examples held in the museum’s collection.
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors. “Horology-The Index.” Accessed December 5, 2012. http://www.nawcc-index.net.
This site acts as a gateway to the various aspects of watches, timekeeping, and horology. It provides information for the casual researcher as well as the professional horologist.
NISO. “A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections.” Accessed November 29, 2012. http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/framework3.pdf.
This web-document was created by NISO with support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It introduces the concept of a digital collection and how to create a quality digital collection. Each of the sections covered is comprised of practical principles that can be applied to practices. The principles are all described in detail and some (like in the meta-data section) have examples of how the principle could be applied.
Pattens Clock Repairs. “British and Irish Clock and Watch Makers (1600-1940): Historical Clock and Watch Research.” Accessed December 12, 2012. www.clockswatches.com.
This website includes information from listings published in books and trade directories held in the site’s library database, and lists producers and types of clocks by region.
Sustainability of Digital Formats Planning for Library of Congress Collections. “JPEG Image Encoding Family.” Last modified November 9, 2012. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000017.shtml.
This source provides information about the types of JPEG formats and explains that the JPEG format should be used for initial creation of a digital photo and as the access version of a digital photo for a user.
Trant, J. “Tagging, Folksonomy and Art Museums: Early Experiments and Ongoing Research.” Journal of Digital Information 10, no. 1 (2009): n.p.
This article provides a review of many of the experiments that have used steve.museum to understand social tagging as a subject access point for museum records. It also records important open questions and implications for further research in the field.
USBooks.com. “USBooks.com.” Accessed December 6, 2012. www.usbooks.com. Path: Ansonia Antique Clocks.
A gateway site of horology books, relating to the value of antique clocks and preservation and maintenance issues concerning antique clocks.