PALINET Workshop on Paper Preservation

From: Susan M. Melnick - PALINET (smm@prlc.org)
Date: Tue Sep 03 1996 - 07:29:12 PDT


PALINET is pleased to offer a half-day seminar on paper preservation.
Presented by James Burd, president of Preservation Technologies, Inc.,
producer of the BOOKKEEPER mass deacidification process, this seminar will
examine the following topics:

What is the problem? What causes it?

            Fundamentals of paper chemistry
            How paper is made
            How acids form or are deposited on paper
            Why acids cause paper to become embrittled

What solutions exist--brief history of treatment techniques
      
            Aqueous techniques
            Solid techniques
                 - Interleaving
                 - Alkaline backing and enclosures
            Nonaqueous liquid techniques (e.g., magnesium methyl carbonate)
                 - Wei T'o
                 - Batelle
            Nonaqueous vapor - diethyl zinc (DEZ)
            Nonaqueous liquid/solid - Bookkeeper process

Developing and managing a deacidification program

            How to begin
            What materials to select for treatment
            Examining the costs
            How a program works

Questions and answers

      
Dates and Locations:
        1996 September 30 Enoch Pratt Free Library Baltimore, MD
        1996 October 1 New Jersey State Library Trenton, NJ
               1996 October 8 PALINET Office Pittsburgh, PA

Times/Format: September 30 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. lecture/discussion
               October 1 and 8 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon lecture/discussion

Cost per person: There is no charge for this seminar.

For more information: Phone: 800/233-3401; Internet: PALINET@PALINET.ORG;
                FAX: 215/382-0022



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