CONSERVATION

1. Look into increased de-acidification in-house, on an ongoing basis, of either manuscript materials from Special Collections, or African pamphlet materials.
2. Concentrate on the re-housing, using envelope pams produced in-house,  of Special Collections materials now housed in acidic binders.

3. Work on guidelines and recommendations for shelving of non book materials.

4. Use some of the CMI boxing to enclose the fragile volumes of the US Serial set housed in the Government Documents Library.

5. Produce a brochure for the Conservation Unit detailing the treatments with an emphasis on  the blast freezer.

 Look into increased de-acidification in-house, on an ongoing basis, of either manuscript materials from Special Collections, or African pamphlet materials.

 

Primary Contact:

John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)

Objectives:

• Presently de-acidification is used only for maps and limited flat paper items.
• Make use of the equipment and supplies for de-acidification we have in the unit.
• In collaboration with collection managers, decide where best to use the resources.

 

Progress:

• Have spoken with staff in the Map Library  many times over the year trying to get a steady supply of materials. Have been promised material from both the Map & Imagery Library, and Florida History, but after a couple of weeks it quits coming and I am told that other projects have taken priority.
• In April 2002 I talked to Archives and got one folder of items and then no more.
• I am now putting out a more general request to all of Special Collections but no one really seems very interested.

Concentrate on the re-housing, using envelope pams produced in-house,  of Special Collections materials now housed in acidic binders.

 

 

Primary Contact:

John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)

Objective:

• Re-house rare book pamphlet materials now housed in acidic folders.

Progress:

 

          June 2002: have rehoused about 350 items total this fiscal year. Mainly in Rare Books.

Work on guidelines and recommendations for shelving of non book materials.

 

Primary Contact:

John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)

Objective:

• acquisition of increasing numbers of CDs, audio tapes, VHS tapes, etc., have caused confusion as to how to bind/shelve/handle them.

Progress: 

• Completed. See Conservation web page under Non-Book materials.

Use some of the CMI boxing to enclose the fragile volumes of the US Serial set housed in the Government Documents Library.

Primary Contact:

John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)

Objective:

• Early volumes of the Serial Set need protection. Many have loose covers and pages.

Progress:

• November 2001: Have boxed about 100 of the set starting with Volume #1.
• June 2002: Boxed an additional 165. Will stop at this point because of lack of expansion space on the shelving.

Produce a brochure for the Conservation Unit detailing the treatments with an emphasis on  the blast freezer.

Primary Contact:

          John Freund (johfreu@mail.uflib.ufl.edu)

Objective: 

          Publicize the unit activities and especially the blast freezer

Progress:

• November 2001: Have completed a draft of the brochure.

• Presently working on photographs.