Guide to Searching the Conservation Collection (PDF, 193KB)
		Collection Development Policy for the Conservation Collection (PDF, 272KB)

The Conservation Collection in the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute represents an ongoing collaboration between the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Research Institute to acquire and retain resources required to fulfill the long-term research and scholarship needs of the international conservation community. The Conservation Collection, with its emphasis on conservation, management, and protection of cultural property, both movable (held by museums or libraries) and immovable (architecture, cultural heritage sites), complements the general and special collections of the Research Library that focus on the history of the visual arts, architecture, archaeology, and the humanities.

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of conservation, the Conservation Collection includes research resources ranging from the pure and applied sciences, such as chemistry and materials science, to humanities-based disciplines, such as history and archaeology.

The seven main collection areas of the Conservation Collection are:

• Movable cultural property management, conservation, and protection
• Built heritage management, conservation, and protection
• Archaeological conservation
• Conservation science and scientific methods and technologies used to assess and preserve cultural property
• Materials and materials science
• Education and training methods for cultural property management, conservation, and protection
• Policy and management issues for cultural property protection and conservation

The holdings of the Conservation Collection, currently about 30,000 titles and 45,000 volumes, are available to search in the Research Library catalog, and may be consulted at the Getty Center or borrowed through your Library's Interlibrary Loan Department.

For reference assistance in the use of the Conservation Collection, to recommend a specific title or to make a donation to the Conservation Collection, contact the GCI Information Center.