I was visiting with a museum colleague who had recently moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico from the Midwest. He said he was thrown by the environmental conditions that he now must deal with managing collections in an arid environment. He said that his training on museum...
Just like museums and galleries, archives and libraries must pay close attention to the temperature and humidity conditions in their spaces. It would be tempting to think or expect that archive collections are not as materially diverse as ethnographic museum...
One of the major goals of a data monitoring program is to eventually make improvements to your collection environment. These improvements can be in the form of reduced energy consumption, changes to increase the longevity of the collection materials, or a combination...
A data report is any type of documentation that describes an analysis of your environmental data. It can be short and simple or quite complex, depending on the amount of data and the depth of your analysis of your collection’s environment. Reports are used to...
Once you have begun collecting environmental data you are ready to set a timeline for environmental data analysis. Having a full year of data is ideal for preservation planning, but analysis can begin at any time – particularly if you are troubleshooting after a water...
