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Well, if you have the financial resources you can give the album to a professional restorer. They have archive quality papers and materials and they can build whole albums like new. It costs a bit but you get top grade works and save the record and artwork. Shai Thomas Stern wrote: > this discussion raises a general question regarding archival > and collector practice relating to record albums. > > Many store the records in archive quality sleeves > on appropriate shelving. Some have only the records, > having discarded the original albums (this was done at the > Institute of Jazz Studies when housed at Marshall Stearns home, > don't know what is done at the IJS at Rutgers.) > > Do you shelve records in album sequence or catalog number sequence? > What do you do with the albums? > > I usually keep records with the albums, which are > shelved by label and album number. > As age and deterioration overtake the albums, I have thought > it might be better for the records to remove them and > shelve them with other singles. > I would then disassemble the album and keep only > the PARTS of the album which contain graphics, photos or notes. > > The advantages to that would be to better protect the records, > save a little space and get rid of possible source of contamination > (e.g. the deteriorating, mildewed sleeves and bindings. > > The disadvantage is destroying an artifact. > > Others musings sought....Thanks. Thomas. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Robert M. > Bratcher Jr. > Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 12:26 AM > To: 78-L Mail List > Subject: Re: [78-L] saving an album > > > At 09:00 AM 11/6/2009, you wrote: > >> Question #2. >> >> I acquired a reasonably nice set of 78s that had been stored in a >> fellow's garage. So plenty of moldy smell, silver fish and the like >> crawling all over it. I don't think I will do much about the smell or >> the fact that the paper is rather dried out. >> >> Surprisingly, it is in decent enough condition. The pockets look clean. >> I would like to know what I may do to prevent bringing other critters >> into the house, should there be eggs hiding down in the cracks >> somewhere. Perhaps placing it in a plastic baggie and freezing it for a >> few days in the freezer? Some other way of treating it? >> >> joe salerno >> > > I would take each 78 out of it's album, clean it then put it in a new > (clean) sleeve. After that I'd look carefully through the jackets > (inside the sleeves too) for anything that doesn't belong there if > they are album jackets with a picture on the front. If not then I'd > just throw the jackets away..... > > _______________________________________________ > 78-L mailing list > [log in to unmask] > http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l > >