For a free pamphlet on archival basics, try the folowing document that was
written and published by the Wyoming SHRAB a few years ago:

http://www.Idahohistory.net/SHRAB%20booklet2.pdf


Also, for another all volunteer art festival, you might want to look at
Sweet Pea Festival of the Arts at Bozeman, Montana, who are still going
strong since 1978.

Nathan E. Bender, Professor
Head of Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
Rayburn Street, Room 008
P.O.Box 442351
Moscow, ID 83844-2351

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  Subject: Establishing archives for a not-for-profit community festival




        I am a volunteer for a yearly festival called Comfest.
http://www.comfest.com/  The festival was started in the early 1970s and is
arguably the largest non-commercially sponsored, completely volunteer-run
festival. The archives will potentially hold programs, t-shirts, meeting
minutes, founding papers, news clips about the festival, audio and video
recordings, etc.  I have volunteered to help them establish an archives.

        As an archivist in a special collections environment at a
university, I am used to working with certain luxories, such as a
tempertaure and humidity-controlled environment.  This is not the case with
the archives that we are establishing.  The space that has been generously
provided is in an office space in a basement of a commercial building.  It
is a dry basement (does not flood), but I imagine it is damp.  The
temperature, however, does remain fairly constant year round.  Without
expensive equipment, what is the best way for me determine the humidity as
well as reduce it and maintain it at a level that will not present a mold
risk to the materials.  We are lucky to have a place to house these
materials as presently they are scattered across the city and access to them
is difficult if not impossible.  This will also give us a chance to evaluate
older magnetic media and brittle newsprint and reformat them before they are
lost.

        Could you also recommend any cheap to free pamphlets or thin books
on archival basics?  I would like to provide these to interested Comfest
volunteers.

        Finally, has anyone out there worked on a similar type project--an
archive of a festival or started a archives with little funds from scratch?

        Please contact me off list with information.

        Thanks!   Mary





  Mary M. Manning, M.A., M.L.I.S.
  Archivist
  Medical Heritage Center
  Prior Health Sciences Library
  The Ohio State University
  (614) 292-9966 (ph)
  (614) 292-9919 (f)

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