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Paper: Works / Books / Archivescustom-made book wrapperfirst in acid-free tissue. This will protect the wrapperfrom excessive marking and the tissue can be readilyreplaced.Soft bindings, such as those bound with plastic spirals,can be stored upright in manuscript/pamphletboxes made from multipurpose board or bought from asupplier.Fragile bindings need to be put into boxes andstored flat. This is the very best protection for them.Such boxes need to be individually constructed. Thebest style is the box that has a drop-spine. These can bemade from multipurpose board without the need for specialisedequipment.Books should not be stored in slip-cases as thesereadily abrade their covers. All enclosures for booksneed to be made precisely.inner slipouter slipclosure tabmanuscript boxes canhold soft bindingsstorage box with droppedspine for fragile bindings20
Paper: Works / Books / ArchivesArchival collectionsautomatically removed. Where fasteners are removedArchival collections can be made up of documents, letters,diaries, ledgers, journals, scrapbooks, newspapers, over a small fold of acid-free paper. Fasteners can some-they can be replaced with plastic-coated clips placedmaps, plans and ephemera such as postcard collections. times be avoided altogether by putting groups of papersin separate folders of acid-free buffered paper.Handling—storing papers in the manner described Documents etc are best stored flat within foldersbelow will help minimise direct contact with a document.Documents should be lifted on supporting inter-purchased or made from an acid-free buffered boardand housed in document storage boxes. Folders can beleaving paper. To see the back of the document another such as archival manila or 10-point Library board.interleaving sheet can be placed on top and the documentturned over. If the document is in a paper folder Folders and boxes must not be overfilled. FoldersWithin each box the folders should be the same size.this can be used to handle it. When a large number of need to be bigger all around than the papers they arepapers are being looked at it may be impossible to avoid housing; in turn the papers can be interleaved with singleleaves of acid-free buffered paper uniformly cut todirectly handling the items. In this case gloves can beworn or paper fingers used. Paper fingers (see also page the same size as the folder.23) are made from a small square of acid-free paper Books such as diaries and notebooks should not befolded on the diagonal so a triangle is formed. The openendedapex of the triangle is slipped around the docu-can exert. They need to be boxed separately. Several canstored with paper because of the uneven pressure theyment to be moved, one ‘finger’ at the top of the be put in the same box by making partitions. Such boxesdocument and one at the bottom.should always be stored flat.Care should be taken to lift paper rather than drag Where space is at a premium, it is not always practicalto keep all papers in flat storage, which should beit across other documents below. Such an action willscratch and abrade any print or image on the paper. reserved for fragile items. If upright storage is used, folderswithin boxes need to be carefully filled so that whenEncapsulation also provides a safe way of looking atitems.they are upright the material does not fall and slump. AWhere documents are being repeatedly looked at box can be made to exact size or if a standard size isand are fragile, they can be photocopied on to acid-free used, a spacer that is the height of the folder can bebuffered paper. A second master copy should also be made from multipurpose board folded to form an openendedrectangle.made at the same time, so that the document does notever need to be re-photocopied.Newspaper Clippings—newspaper clippings andanything printed on newsprint have a high acidic content.They need to be isolated from other material byStorage—archival collections are often difficult to storebecause of their wide range of formats, from a single leaf being placed in a paper fold. Clippings can also be photocopiedonto a buffered acid-free paper and stored sep-of paper to a group of papers in book format. Papersshould not be folded. If the paper is very brittle or does arately.not willingly unfold get advice from a conservator.Scrapbooks—these are often made of poor-qualityMetal paperclips, staples and rubber bands should materials and they commonly have a variety of materialgenerally be removed, but care must be taken to keep pasted into them. However no attempt should be madethe original sequence of papers intact; in cases of valuablehistorical material such fasteners should not be to photocopyto dismantle scrapbooks. Sometimes it may be possiblethem.21
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Page 56 and 57: Bone / Ivory / TeethAlthough bone,
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Page 72 and 73: SuppliersSuppliers of Conservation
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