glue sticks

["Karen Brown" <kebrown@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Eveyln Gontar:  It will probably come as no surprise that the use of a
glue stick is not recommended for use with materials that you wish to
consider keeping over the long-term.  I would highly recommend that you use
either acid-free paper or Mylar corner mounts, or use Japanese tissue tabs
and wheat starch paste adhesive.  For information on the corner mounts, you
should look at H. Wilhem and C. Bower's "The Permanence and Care of Color
Photographs" (Grinell, IA:  Preservation Publishing Company, 1993).  They
describe in great deal a range of designs that I think you will find
helpfu. For information on the preparation of paste and it's use with
tissue, please see our Technical Leaflets "REPAIRING PAPER ARTIFACTS," at
http://www.nedcc.org/tleaf63.htm, and MATTING AND FRAMING FOR ART AND
ARTIFACTS ON PAPER, http://www.nedcc.org/tleaf410.htm.

I hope this is helpful.  Please feel free to contact me directly if I can
be of any further assistance.  All the best - Karen

At 06:34 PM 3/15/99 -0000, you wrote:
>I am working on a library
>history scrapbook. Is it ok to
>use Scotch glue stick to put acid
>free copies of news articles on
>acid free pages-Suggestions
>please


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Northeast Document Conservation Center
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Andover, MA  01810-1494
kebrown@xxxxxxxxx
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