On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> I have experienced two different reactions at my
> institution: the museum curator wants hygrothermographs; the
> archivist, who must store not only paper but things made of cloth,
> plastic, wood, etc., and who in fact still uses hygrothermographs,
> wants to switch to data loggers. The temperature/humidity tolerances
> that both have to monitor are not wildly different. I am therefore
> mystified. Is this an ideological issue?

Perhaps it is a financial issue.  Many museums invested significant $$ in
hygrothermographs before computers were readily available.  To change now
will require a certain investment, which your curator may rather spend on
something else.

Susan Wageman
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The Tech Museum of Innovation     (408) 279-7178
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