Marie:
Wow, what a huge undertaking!
My guess is at the end of this you should be able to present a great
paper on how to deal with handling a collection that has been impacted
by an earthquake.
Glad to know you are safe.
Regards,
--Scott
Scott D. Smith CAS
On 5/23/2012 3:10 AM, Marie O'Connell wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Today we finished sorting our known accessions from 1997 to 2012. We have
> yet to sort the accession analogue discs and Mobile Unit analogue discs and
> are awaiting our custom made crates. This will be the end of the sorting
> process and then we have a collection of 'orpans' which will be added.
>
> Thus far, John Kelcher and myself have physically sorted into crates well
> over 70,000 wax cylinders, analogue discs, open reel tapes, CDR's, DAT's,
> cassettes, VHS, mini disc, U-matic tapes etc. These have all been put on
> many spread sheets ready to be uploaded to our database.
>
> This is a real achievement as we prepare ourselves to get back to actual
> preservation which we have not been able to do for over 20 months.
>
> Our former building has officially been 'red zoned' and is due for
> demolition. We remain in temporary digs until a purpose built building can
> be worked out. We do continue to have aftershocks regularly, the latest
> being a 4.8 on Sunday, this just keeps you on your toes. The archive was
> not affected.
>
> Cheers
> Marie
>
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