The Facet Preservation Collection 2 includes eight books written by leading academics and practitioners containing cutting-edge information and practical guidance on preservation for libraries, archives and museums. The books included in the Collection are, Practical Digital Preservation: A how-to guide for organizations of any size by Adrian Brown; 2) Preserving Our Heritage: Perspectives from antiquity to the digital age, edited by Michele V Cloonan; 3) Preserving Archives, 2nd edition by Helen Forde and Jonathan Rhys-Lewis; 4) Preservation Management for Libraries, Archives and Museums, edited by G E Gorman and Sydney J Shep; 5) Digital Curation, 2nd edition, edited by Gillian Oliver and Ross Harvey; 6) Digital Preservation, edited by Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner; 7) Preparing Collections for Digitization by Anna E Bulow and Jess Ahmon; and 8) Preserving Complex Digital Objects, edited by Janet Delve and David Anderson.

About the Author

Adrian Brown is the Director of the Parliamentary Archives and has lectured and published widely on all aspects of digital preservation. He was previously Head of Digital Preservation at the National Archives where his team won the International Digital Preservation Award in 2007. Michelle Valerie Cloonan is Dean Emerita and Professor at the Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College. Helen Forde is a professional archivist who has worked in local authority, private and national archives. Until 2001 she was Head of Preservation Services at the UK national Archives, where she had previously been in charge of both the library and the Museum. She has taught preservation management and worked as an independent consultant on archives. Jonathan Rhys-Lewis is preservation and collections management consultant with over 25 years experience within local government and as an independent consultant. He trains, lectures and publishes on preservation and preservation management. G.E. Gorman BA(Hons) MDiv STB GradDipLib MA ThD FCLIP FRSA is Professor of Library and Information Management at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, and Editor of Online Information Review. Sydney J. Shep BA(Hons) MA MA PhD is Senior Lecturer in Print and Book Culture at Victoria University of Wellington, and the Printer at Wai-te-ata Press, a letterpress teaching laboratory, research facility and fine press printing house. Ross Harvey is Adjunct Professor at RMIT University and the University of South Australia. Gillian Oliver is an academic at the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Her PhD is from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests centre on organisational culture, and the influences this has on the way that information is managed. She is the co-editor of Records Management and Information Culture (Facet 2014) and a Co-editor in Chief of the journal Archival Science. Marilyn Deegan PhD is Director of Research Development, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings College London. Simon Tanner BA(Hons) MCLIP is Director of King s Digital Consultancy Services, Kings College London. Dr Anna E. Bulow is Head of Preservation at The National Archives. She is editor of the Journal of Paper Conservation and has written and presented on a wide range of subjects including degradation mechanisms of paper, environmental monitoring and control, risk assessment and digitization. Jess Ahmon MA MSc is Preservation Officer at The National Archives. She has given a number of presentations on the challenges of digitization of original documents, most recently at the Digital Futures training programme run by Kings College London. Janet Delve is co-leader of the interdisciplinary Future Proof Computing Group in the School of Creative Technologies at the University of Portsmouth. She is a member of the Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Editorial Board.