On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, James Lindner wrote:
Several comments - firstly I would recommend that you get the collection out
of the basement no matter what. Basements are just terrible places for
archives in general and AV archives in particular. Most basements are below
grade - so that it there is any flooding in a building the water will seek
its lowest level and find the archive.
At our institution we kept (keep) the recordings on the bottom floor
basement...the building is built on a natural spring and the floor has
been subject to flooding 3 times in the last 20 or so years...I dried many
a record. Their solution was to install a sump pump.
Karl