Cultural Heritage Guidelines and Standards

Preservation and Access

• Care, Handling and Storage of Photographs
• Guidelines for Audiovisual and Multimedia Materials in Libraries and other Institutions
• Guidelines for Exhibition Loans
• Guidelines for Newspaper Preservation Microfilming
• Guidelines for Setting Up a Digital Unification Project
• Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
• IFLA Principles for the Care and Handling of Library Material
• Microfilming for Digitisation and Optical Character Recognition

Disaster Risk Reduction and Response

• IFLA Disaster Preparedness and Planning: A Brief Manual
• IFLA Principles of Engagement in library-related activities in times of conflict, crisis or disaster

UNESCO/PERSIST

• The UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Heritage for Long-term Preservation

 See the full list of current IFLA Standards here.