[padg] Re: Newspaper Clippings and Scrapbooks

["Susan Knoer" <susan.knoer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph,

Instead of photocopying, have you considered photographing them?  That
wouldn't require disassembling the scrapbook, and you could print off
the images with the same quality as photocopies, or better, if there's
color involved.

I bought a Panasonic DMC LS70 online under $50, and paid under $15 for
a 1G card and reader, and since the University was renting them out to
random students by the day, I knew it was durable and fairly
idiot-proof, as I've since proved.  A 7.1 image is pretty good for
most uses, so you have a copy you can post online and make
exhibit/preservation copies from.

If someone has a digital camera already, it's no cost, and you can
proceed to number 3.

Susan Knoer
Library and archives consultant
Master Plans Inc.



On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Joseph Cottingham
<vancott4686@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The museum recently received two scrapbooks containing newspaper articles
> written by a prominent local waterfront writer from the 1920s and 1930s. The
> scrapbooks are full of great local articles about Pacific Coast fishing
> during a time period that will be of great interest to our members. Although
> the newspaper clipping are fairly well preserved the articles were glued to
> acidic scrapbook pages and cannot be easily removed.
>
>
>
> We have a number of strategies:
>
> Copy the articles onto archival paper and preserve the masters, which would
> require disassembling the scrapbook binding. Many of the clippings are in an
> overlay arrangement, one on top of another requiring several to be removed
> from the backing at the risk of damage.
> Microfilm the entire collection, however, our budget does not currently
> support such an undertaking.
> Interweave the pages of the scrapbooks with interleave buffered paper and
> store in archive boxes.
>
> Are there any suggestions from someone that faced a similar situation?
>
>
>
> Joseph Cottingham
>
> Maritime Museum of San Diego