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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