Re: [ARSCLIST] Adhesives and Disk Labels

[Jerome Hartke <jhartke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adhesive labels are not recommended for archival storage for reasons
other than cosmetic. See our website:

http://www.mscience.com/faq.html

J. Hartke
Media Sciences, Inc.

Tom Teper wrote:
>
> A colleague at our institution has recently begun a project to clean and
> rehouse a number of instantaneous disks in one of our libraries.
> Unfortunately, the adhesive on many of the labels has dried, and the labels
> have fallen off. She is interested in re-affixing the labels, and asked if
> there was an adhesive that would be more appropriate for her to use than PVA.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Tom Teper
>
> Head of Preservation
> University Library
> 246F Main Library
> 1408 West Gregory Drive
> Urbana, IL      61801
>
> Telephone:      217-244-8755
>
> Fax:            217-244-4358