Re: Archival fasteners

You can test your copier paper using an inexpensive pH pen or whatever method you’re used to using to test pH.  Every type of copier paper I’ve tried has tested acid-neutral, except recycled paper.

 

Arel Lucas, C.A.

Archives/Special Collections Librarian

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Prescott Campus

From: Archives & Archivists [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nancy Iannucci
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 6:40 AM
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Subject: Re: Archival fasteners and an addition question...

 

Although I dislike plastic clips, I do find that using acid-free paper as separators is a very expensive practice.  I have a hard enough time keeping my copy machine supplied with acid-free paper let alone use these sheets as dividers.  Personally speaking, I could go through loads of these sheets just as dividers alone.  So, I do use plastic clips here and there to help keep costs down.

 

I also have another question.  Is it absolutely necessary to buy the most expensive line of acid-free paper (which can be found in our archival supply catalogs) instead of using the paper that our institution buys in bulk (which are labeled acid-free)???  I have been meaning to put this question out there for some time...I guess now is as good a time as any.

 

Thanks for your thoughts in advance.

Nancy Iannucci

Emma Willard School Archives

 

From: Archives & Archivists on behalf of Wood, Thomas J
Sent: Wed 8/23/2006 5:52 PM
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Subject: Re: Archival fasteners

Yes, plastic paper clips are terrible -- they damage the paper and fly
off at the slightest touch. For (recent, not antiquarian) documents of
only a few pages, stainless steel staples are fine. Sheets of acid free
paper folded in half keeps more fragile or valuable documents stored in
a folder together. Longer documents deserve their own folders.


Thomas J. Wood
Archivist
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
University of Illinois at Springfield
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Springfield IL 62703-5407
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