February 11, 2011

Small Museums: Stage Two-Improve Collections Storage for Just a Few Dollars!

 

Six Simple Steps: Improve Your Collections Storage for Just a Few Dollars!

A few dollars can help you make a big difference. Be sure to ask your local hardware store for donations or a discount on some of these items. Take photos of your progress!

  • Purchase acid-free storage boxes, files, envelopes, etc. as needed, and test old paper-based storage materials with a pH pen to ensure they are still acid-free, replace them with new ones.

  • Take a look inside your storage boxes. Are documents, file folders, books, objects, etc. leaning against one another or sliding down in the box and curling? Make acid-free rigid supports/spacers to put inside the boxes so that the contents stay upright and are fully supported.

  • Line wood shelf units with a barrier of acid-free mat board or inert foam sheeting; use barrier materials of acid-free mat board or inert foam material as needed between objects.

  • Add dust covers to your open shelf units by covering them with polyethylene sheeting, but leave openings for air exchanges.

  • Begin an environmental monitoring program: purchase an inexpensive digital thermo-hygrometer (temperature and humidity measuring device) for your storage space; record temperature and humidity levels at approximately the same time each day; keep the records in a logbook. Make adjustments to the climate control system when problems with spiking humidity or temperature are identified.

  • Monitor the area for pests; purchase inexpensive sticky traps and place them around your storage area where you can reach them beneath storage units, in dark corners and on window sills; inspect them each month, throw away the old traps and replace them with fresh ones; keep a record of your captures. Don’t know what you’ve caught? Ask a local naturalist or high school biology teacher to help you with identification. Have the area treated as needed if destructive pests are found.

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