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When someone uses the phrase “archival tape”

No, really, an “archival quality” pressure-sensitive tape does not exist.

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Put on yer gloves!

When you find out that water leaked from the ceiling INTO the Preservation lab:   Then you find out the water came from an overflowing toilet… And that it’s happened before!

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The Urban Legend of Scanning Damage

So, I just learned about a Preservation ‘urban legend’ yesterday, while working a preservation “clinic” at a workshop hosted by my library. A man had brought a very brittle and fragile army base newspaper that belonged to his father. It was falling apart, and the paper was very pulpy and probably wouldn’t survive much more […]