Subject: Damage to electronic media by magnetic fields
As a master's student at the University of Pittsburgh I have been interning at a local music library where one of my duties has been to photocopy the cases of incoming CDs for record-keeping purposes. I have been wondering whether copying the cases with the CDs still inside could possibly damage the CDs. My thinking is based on the possibility that the magnetic field generated by the copier may someone cause the electronic data on the CD to "shift". Does anyone know if CDs could possibly be damaged by this practice? Please respond to me directly. Thanks very much, Sonya Koros Dept. of Library Science SLIS University of Pittsburgh *** Conservation DistList Instance 9:36 Distributed: Sunday, October 22, 1995 Message Id: cdl-9-36-018 ***Received on Thursday, 19 October, 1995