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Hi folks, I am new to this list, so please forgive me if this question
has been asked recently. I am the new Archivist in an institution that has
approximately 2500 linear feet (More? Less? Who knows?) of completely
unprocessed archival material, piled all over the various buildings. These
materials include perhaps 300 phonograph records from the 1930s-1950s, mostly
stored in some kind of phonograph binders; kind of like a photo album, except
with record sleeves rather than pages for photos. I am working on a preliminary
budget for urgently needed supplies, and one thing I would like to do a.s.a.p.
is re-house these phonographs. I have very little experience with recorded
sound preservation, so my question for you is: how do I store these records? My
first instinct is to store the phonographs in acid-free paper phonograph
sleeves in acid-free boxes, and store the binders/notebooks in boxes
separately, somehow maintaining the intellectual link between which records
were originally stored in which binder. Does this sound plausible? Are there
standards easily available for phonograph storage? Any help is greatly
appreciated! Thanks, Katy Rawdon-Faucett Katy Rawdon-Faucett Archivist The Barnes Foundation 300 North Latch's Lane Ph: (610) 667-0290 ext. 1048 Fax: (610) 664-4026 |