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Unit 4: Store Opening and Closing

and successfully training what can often be thousands of distributed end users. This makes Notes
delivery certainty critically important. And maintaining business continuity is equally important
because the data that flows between the store and head office underpins merchandising, supply
chain, accounting and payment systems—the heart of the retail business.

Self Assessment

State whether the following statements are true or false:
10. The retail world is not extremely competitive.

11. Retail store systems are on the frontline of the drive to achieve operational excellence.
12. Mobile shelving and racking storage systems that help minimise storage floor space at the
back of the shop leaving more space for retail display.

4.5 Preservation of Materials in the Storage

Preservation management is required for the implementation of policies that are based on
established standards and practices (such as risk management, cost-benefit analysis, handling
guidelines, and supply specifications). Effective planning should be done in conjunction with
assessment surveys of institutional environment and security; collection priorities based on
value, use, and risk; and item-level condition and housing needs to ensure responsible levels of
accessibility and care that is appropriate to the needs of collections. A consideration of the
budget, staff, supplies, space, and time resources of the repository is mandatory. Preservation
planning facilitates reformatting, environmental control, collections maintenance, treatment,
research, and training.
Material care requires the establishment, first, of responsible handling and storage policies for
collections and second, responsible access to information. If you don’t have it, you can’t access it.
Preservation of the physical and chemical content of the material is necessary before preservation
of its intellectual content can be assured. Even digitization ensures access to only that information
which has been extracted from original material to date. To illustrate but one example, duplication
of the image of an old photograph in no way reveals whether the photograph is a vintage
product of a single negative or a composite of separate pieces that may or may not be of the same
period. This information can be determined by analysis of the old photograph (coatings, emulsion,
paper, mount) using the chemical and physical measurements of materials science. Stored
improperly, a mounted photograph may lose valuable visible information that might or might
not be “recovered” through digitized image-enhancement techniques. A colour transparency of
an old photograph may replicate enough visual content to meet some research needs, but in no
way does any duplicate provide all the informational content preserved in the original
photograph, such as the photographer’s working methods and materials. Technical information
inherent in the original photograph may be determined through materials science if this
information has not been irretrievably lost because of deterioration resulting from poor storage
and care.

4.5.1 Preservation Strategies and Tactics

Material care and materials science are essential elements in any comprehensive preservation
program, incorporated within key functions of preservation administration, duplication,
environmental control, collections maintenance, conservation treatment, research and education.
Key strategies employ preventive care and phased conservation. Despite the depletion of
economic resources exacerbating the depletion of natural and cultural resources, these strategies

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