February 28, 2006
Historic Preservation Guide
The Environmental Design Library at U.C. Berkeley hosts an online resource guide for historic preservation that many of you will find useful. Historic Preservation: A Guide to Resources, developed by Head Librarian Elizabeth Byrne of U.C. Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, is a guide to strategies and resources for students and others beginning research on the conservation, preservation, or restoration of historic buildings and landscapes.
The online guide places particular emphasis on resources in the California and the Bay Area, but provides generally applicable information as well. Categories of information include: research methods; reference sources; history and philosophy; legal and political environment; social and cultural aspects; economic aspects; documenation and interpretation; handbooks and manuals; archives, associations and organizations; architecture; landscape architecture; and planning.
Lists of resources are provided for each of these categories. Some are online and available for download, while others can be obtained by more traditional means...like going to the library.
Check it out at: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/historicpreservation.html
If you have a comment, or would like to post a link or article, please use the online form at: http://www.preservela.com/contact.html