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Are these commercially issued recordings or
one-of-a-kind items made from speeches and radio broadcasts, etc.?
Cleaning and storing can be quite different for the two types. If
commercial and otherwise unrelated to your colecting policy, they may not be
worth the cost of processing.
========================= Steven Smolian
301-694-5134 Smolian Sound
Studios --------------------------------------------------- CDs made from
old recordings, Five or one or lifetime hoardings, Made at home or concert
hall, Text and pics explain it all. at www.soundsaver.com=========================
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 9:54
AM
Subject: arsclist Storage of phonograph
records
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
Merion,
PA
19066-1759
Ph: (610)
667-0290 ext. 1048
Fax: (610)
664-4026
krawdon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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