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Thu, 31 Oct 1996 20:03:30 -0800
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Museum-L-sters --

This somewhat mirrors an earlier question I posted -- sorry!

Has anyone (the Getty, perhaps?) produced anything similar in the past
decade to the Museum Archival Supplies Handbook produced by the Ontario
Museum Association?

My reason for asking is this:
I am planning to focus my thesis on developing a handbook, or web page, or
??, looking at archival materials that museums use and their safety,
usefulness, cost, physical and chemical background, where they can be
purchased, etc. This product could be used by, more than likely,
smaller museums that don't have the expertise or resources in
identifying *safe* archival materials.  (I plan to focus on Ethafoam,
different types of matboard and paper, archival boxes, etc.)

I've done some searching on the Net and in the library and have not found
anything similar to what I want to do (except the MASH as listed above,
but even that is on a larger scale than I want to go).  If anyone knows
of anything similar that I have missed in my research, would you please
let me know?  I'm building a good bibliography, and I am eager to get
going on this!  Thanks a lot and sorry for the length of this message!

Toni Preston
Univ. of Washington
Museology grad

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