Internet links to resources mentioned in this paper are included. This paper aims to raise awareness of valuable resources that can aid collection stewards in promoting, planning, and executing collaborative preventive conservation and collections care activities for the natural history community. Preventive care projects almost always benefit from an interdisciplinary approach with input from conservators and the full range of staff who work with collections in other capacities. Collection care professionals, especially those working with natural science specimens that number in the thousands or millions, know that the everyday practices of preventive conservation contribute to greater overall collections preservation and prevent damage that requires time-consuming and expensive interventive treatment. Risk assessment, disaster planning, environmental monitoring, maintenance of collections spaces, integrated pest management, and development of collection policies and procedures are some of the methodologies that foster preservation of cultural heritage and are a part of responsible stewardship.
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