Oh boy, we DO have Vinegar Syndrome! What now? Can we salvage these important negatives without putting the other 14,000+ negatives at risk for decay? Is it even possible?
Our Archives Area discussed possible options for this threat, such as re-sleeving and re-boxing, freezing and prioritizing the negatives for digitization in-house or the possibility of out-sourcing the digitization of the negatives. It was determined that we would make a final decision after re-sleeving and re-boxing was complete.
So how do you quickly re-house 14,000+ negatives? AND review each of them for possible Vinegar Syndrome? AND isolate those negatives that somebody decides MAY have the beginnings of Vinegar Syndrome?
Here's what we did:
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| 24 Card File boxes |
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| 7 packs of Index Cards |
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| 150 packs of Negative Sleeves |
