Roofing for Historic Buildings
The resource discusses the benefits of regular inspections, monitoring, and seasonal maintenance work; provides general guidance on maintenance treatments fo...
Resources by Year
1978
1988
Architectural Character: Identifying the Visual Aspects of Historic Buildings as an Aid to Preserving their Character
The purpose of this resource is to help the owner or the architect identify those features or elements that give the building its visual character and that s...
1994
Community Tool Box
The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change.
Understanding Old Buildings: The Process of Architectural Investigation
Architectural investigation is the critical first step in planning an appropriate treatment—understanding how a building has changed over time and assessing ...
2007
Maintaining the Exterior of Small and Medium Size Historic Buildings
The resource discusses the benefits of regular inspections, monitoring, and seasonal maintenance work; provides general guidance on maintenance treatments fo...
2010
Building Technology Heritage Library
The Building Technology Heritage Library (BTHL) is primarily a collection of American and Canadian, pre-1964 architectural trade catalogs, house plan books a...
2011
Place Matters Toolkit
The Place Matters Toolkit is a guidebook to help you identify, promote, and protect places that you care about. The toolkit was originally created and publis...
Historic American Building Survey Guide to Field Documentation
This Field Guide offers step-by-step instructions about how to observe, take field measurements, and create field notes and a short-form report about a histo...
Historic Neighborhoods 101
The guide defines a step-by-step process for looking at your neighborhood by completing a series of exercises, each of which are described and then illustrat...
2012
Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution
Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative an...
2015
Explore Baltimore Heritage 101
This course provides a beginner-friendly introduction on how to use archival sources to learn more about the history of Baltimore houses, buildings, and neig...
The American Yawp
The American Yawp is a free and online, collaboratively built, open American history textbook designed for college-level history courses.
Oral History in the Liberal Arts (OHLA) Resource Hub
Whether you’re looking to learn interview methodology, how to index or transcribe interviews using digital tools, or how to build a public facing project, th...
Syllabus Directory
This directory collects syllabi related to historic preservation and public history from a variety of related syllabus collections including the Vernacular A...
Environmental Design Guides
Over fifty subject guides, prepared by librarians at the UC Berkeley Environmental Design Library on topics including architecture, city and regional plannin...
Historic Preservation, Public History & Archaeology: A Timeline History
This interactive timeline helps you explore the history of historic preservation, archaeology, and public history in the United States of America.
2016
Online Communities for Preservation
Communities of preservation professionals and volunteers advocates are actively organizing online through social media. Browse and join an online community t...
How to Do Creative Placemaking: An Action-Oriented Guide to Arts in Community Development
This book includes instructional and thought-provoking case studies and essays from today’s leading thinkers in creative placemaking. It describes the divers...
Culture in Transit Toolkit
The Culture in Transit Toolkit is a resource for libraries and small cultural heritage institutions interested in initiating mobile digitization services.
Community Preservation Guide
Learn how to build inclusive and diverse communities to support and advocate for historic preservation.
Rural Design Guide
The Small Town and Rural Design Guide is an online design resource and idea book, intended to help small towns and rural communities support safe, comfortabl...
Tactical Urbanist’s Guide to Materials & Design
Tactical Urbanism is an approach to neighborhood building that uses short-term, low-cost, and scalable interventions and policies to catalyze long term change.
Every Place Counts Leadership Academy: Transportation Toolkit
This Toolkit is a plain language explanation of the transportation decision-making process for educational and informational purposes.
2017
Caring for Heritage
If you are involved in caring for a place of worship, such as a church or a synagogue, are responsible for looking after a war memorial or you want to find o...