As most librarians know, it is virtually impossible to stop or reverse the affects of vinegar syndrome and it can spread virally. If you have microfilm that has been produced prior to 1980, read this carefully!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar_syndrome#Decay_and_the_.22vinegar_syndrome.22
http://eleventhstack.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/literary-autodidacts-and-public-libraries/
This is a great article!
I didn’t have to worry about money to go to school/buy books as these literary minds may have but I was still at the library almost every day as a child. Although my choices consisted more of Sweet Valley High and the Box Car Children, I spent A LOT of [...]
Are you responsible for official document archiving? There’s no time like the present to get important documents in order. Disasters sometimes help people to remember that documents aren’t always replaceable. Read this story as a prime example.
http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2009/07/09/news/casper/962e775e463290ee872575ee0003620e.txt
“Historic newspapers supply vital evidence of our history and culture and are used by students, scholars, historians, arts groups, businesses, urban planners, genealogists and others. These primary source materials provide a window into the life of local Oregon communities a century or more ago, covering early environmental preservation, industry, agriculture, urban development, Native American and [...]
My Blog entry this week is from a news article in the April 19th edition of Vermont’s Rutland Herald. Deb Markowitz, Secretary of State writes:
“Last year my office took over responsibility for the public records division of state government, consolidating this department with the State Archives. We undertook a comprehensive and critical examination of [...]
Across my desk comes a reminder of a growing problem. Aging acetate microfilm.
Prior to the early 1980’s, most microfilm used for preserving newspapers, documents and even movie film, was made with cellulose triacetate. “Acetate” as it is commonly known became the standard from the 1930’s to the late 1970’s when production ended. No one really [...]
Thought I might start my first blog attempt on a subject that might help clarify what we do with newspaper and other historial documents. Do we preserve or do we archive?
The verb “preserve” means to keep up or maintain. So when we “preserve” we maintain a record of that document, historical item or [...]
The Winnipeg Free Press, the oldest newspaper in western Canada, has partnered with U.S.-based Heritage Microfilm and NewspaperARCHIVE to digitize and make its entire newspaper archives available online.(See here) http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=97359&issue=03162009
