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June
20, 2005:
How To Preserve Your Stuff
Interview
with Don Williams, author of
Saving
Stuff
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Mike Carruthers:
Stuff, we all have stuff. Some of it we might like to preserve
but time takes it's toll on stuff, specifically there are six
things that will ruin it.
Don
Williams:
Light, temperature, moisture, contamination, biological attach,
by which I mean bugs and mold, and then use and handling.
Don Williams,
Senior Conservator of the Smithsonian Institution and co-author
of the book, Saving
Stuff says if you want to preserve old albums and forty-five
records…
Really
the most important things are to: A. Get them clean, gently
wash the grooves with rubbing alcohol and a fairly soft artists
or makeup brush. And if the album cover itself is especially
important you probably should not keep the album inside the
cover but store the cover separately, almost as an artwork inside
a Mylar folder. And if you can do those things they won't go
bad.
And if
you have books that you value, remember…
There
are two different kinds of bugs that love to eat books; those
would be silverfish and cockroaches. So, if you can control
the environment where books are to especially minimize bugs,
be they silverfish or cockroaches, and then if you can further
control the humidity so that you don't get mold and mildew,
your books will be around for centuries.
Tomorrow
preserving furniture, film and video, I'm Mike Carruthers and
that's Something You Should Know.
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