<div dir="ltr">Specialist archivists from the Glasgow School of Art have begun the operation to conserve items damaged by the fire that ripped through the Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in the city centre on Friday.<br>
<br>The salvage effort will also retrieve the work of students who were preparing for their final-year degree show in the building at the time of the fire, which is believed to have started in the basement.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
​</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​</div><br><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/26/glasgow-school-art-fire-archivists-salvage">http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/26/glasgow-school-art-fire-archivists-salvage</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
​</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><b><font color="#ff0000">The importance of digitising special collections and then implementing a digital disaster recovery plan.</font></b></div>
</div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><b><font color="#ff0000">See: </font></b></div><font color="#ff0000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Disaster_Recovery">http://wiki.lib.sun.ac.za/index.php/SUNScholar/Disaster_Recovery</a></b></font></div>
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