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Dear Kurt and Diane,
Our Preservation Officer requested me to reply to questions 1 and 2 which
you posted to the ARSCLIST.
All lighting in an archival repository is filtered for UV radiation, and
generally the amount is kept low when not needed for a particular task.
Materials to avoid are detailed in a publication you can download from our
homepage www.nara.gov From here
click on the Archives & Preservation Resources heading, when there choose
the Technical Information heading, and under here you will find Preservation,
and there you will find an article on building Archives II.
Sincerely,
Susan Lee-Bechtold Research & Testing >>> nauck@xxxxxxxxx 08/30/01 12:29PM >>> Greetings all. I am about to start construction on a 6000 sq ft building for my business, and I have a couple of questions for the list. 1) Is there a preferred type of lighting for archives? Something that won't cause objects to fade or discolor? 2) Again from an archivists' point of view, are there certain materials I should avoid? This will be a metal building with metal framing & sheetrock. 3) I will be including a transfer studio. Are there specific things I need to plan for? Anything special concerning electrical wiring? I won't be recording live music, only doing transfers from discs and cylinders. Any need for acoustic foam? I know these are general questions, but I don't know enough to ask anything really specific. However, some of you have been in my position and may know of things that I need to be aware of. Thanks! Kurt & Diane Nauck c/o Nauck's Vintage Records 6323 Inway Dr. Spring, TX 77389-3643 Website: www.78rpm.com E-Mail: nauck@xxxxxxxxx Phone: (281) 370-7899 Fax: (425) 930-6862 - For subscription instructions, see the ARSC home page http://www.arsc-audio.org/arsclist.html Copyright of individual posting is owned by the author of the posting and permission to re-transmit or publish a post must be secured from the author of the post. |