Hi Tyra, 

Any idea how many are glass and how many are aluminum? This might be helpful to 
know as you determine which packaging options are reasonable. i.e. the number of items 
that require *situation critical* prioritization. If, for example, only a third or a quarter 
(or whatever) of them are glass then you can focus your attention on those rather than 
pricing out a fancy transit housing for all of them. Delaminating discs, of course, are 
another factor to consider. 

Did you get my message about the broken disc housing our preservation people designed? 

Brandon 


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From: "Tyra Grant" <[log in to unmask]> 
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Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 7:48:14 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: [ARSCLIST] 16" transcription disc housing & moving audio collections 

I have a request and a heads-up/request combination: 

1) I'm seeking advice for properly re-housing more than 200 16" 
rare transcription discs. Currently these are stored in plywood crates 
lying horizontally (30-40 to a box). 

2) These transcription discs are part of a far larger collection, 
the University of Kansas Archive of Recorded Sound Collection, which is 
moving (almost immediately---starting the end of March, I learned this 
week!) to an intermediate storage facility and then eventually to our 
offsite high capacity storage annex. I'm particularly concerned about 
developing housing, care and handling guidelines, at least for our most 
fragile formats---we have most every possible format in this 
collection--- at this point so they are not damaged during the move or 
in their eventual storage locations. 

We have multiple longstanding problems in this collection that will 
require addressing before the move begins---I need to identify and try 
to address the most critical of these and stay ahead of, and try to 
forestall parts of, the move as much as necessary or possible. 

I expect I may be leaning on this list---yes, I'm so so thankful for 
this list, especially at a time like this--- and posting questions about 
housing and storage as they arise but also would appreciate knowing of 
anyone else out there who has moved a large audio collection comprising 
multiple fragile formats who'd be willing to share advice or 
lessons-learned. 

Thanks, in advance, 
Tyra Grant 
Head, Preservation Department 
University of Kansas Libraries 
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Phone: 785-864-8951 


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Brandon Burke 
Archivist for Recorded Sound Collections 
Hoover Institution Archives 
Stanford University 
Stanford, CA 94305-6010 
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fax: 650.725.3445 
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