>A friend from a famous music museum in Rio asks for assistance in
>locating resources for conserving their steel and vinyl phonograph
>record collection. It's under HVAC controls but the record surfaces
>are separating and disintegrating from age. Thanks.
 
You might try contacting Bill Schurk,Sound Recording Archivist, Jerome
Library, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH  43403
(419)372-2307.  That collection is the largest in the nation (except for
the Library of Congress) and has worked with all formats of recorded music
from Edison cylinders through the CD.  Bill surely has had to deal with the
sort of problem you have.
 
Chris Geist
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