RE: arsclist Storage of phonograph records

[Lauren Bufferd <LBufferd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	I am writing to you from the Country Music Hall of Fame where we
have close to 200,000 sound recordings of all formats. I am assuming that
the recordings you are talking about are 78 albums. What we have done here
is to take the discs out of the albums, put them in acid-free sleeves and
stored the paper albums separately. The catalog number of the disc is simply
penciled on the album, so if one needed to recreate the album with it's
discs, one could.

		Our discs are stored in wooden cabinets that were
customized, but archival boxes should work just fine, in fact., most of the
archival supply places sell acid-free sleeves and boxes.

	Good luck!  
> From: 	Katy Rawdon
> Reply To: 	ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: 	Monday, October 15, 2001 8:54 AM
> To: 	'ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> 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
>  
>