Public Record Office Victoria and the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation has developed this tool to assist groups to care for their own archival collections.
The video, entitled Brush vacuuming for archival collections, provides some basic training on cleaning dust and mould from volumes and documents with brush vacuuming equipment, presented by Marika Kocsis, Paper and Book Conservator, Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation, The University of Melbourne.
Produced with the support of the Community Heritage Grants, Community Heritage Grants are jointly funded and supported by the National Library of Australia, the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport; the National Archives of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive and the National Museum of Australia.