Emily-
I have yet to see a survey but if you want a more complete list of attributes of deteriorated discs, try CCI's Technical Bulletin #27 "Remedies for Deteriorated or Damaged Modern Information Carriers."
When and if you find any such assessment, would you please share with PADG? I think this would be of great interest/use to us all.
Good luck!
Best,
Tara
At 02:18 PM 10/24/2006, you wrote:
Hello all,
I am a graduate student currently enrolled in a Preservation
Management class. My partner and I will be conducting a needs
assessment survey on a collection of CD-ROMs. However, we are having
some trouble finding examples of past surveys from other libraries.
Since we don't have the equipment needed to test the BLER, we plan on
doing a visual inspection for disc rot, hurricane patterns, scratches,
fingerprints, label failure, etc. and a readability test, i.e. will it
play on the computers available at the library and what software does
it require. Has anyone done an assessment on CD-ROMs? Any
suggestions for additional items to be included in the survey would be
greatly appreciated.
Best,
Emily Rainwater
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Tara D. Kennedy
Preservation Field Services Librarian
Yale University Libraries
130 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 432-4335
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