[ARSCLIST] CD cleaning help

[Esther Gillie <gillie@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Collective Wisdom;

We just discovered a CD set in our library that has some sort of white film
on the play side of the disk.  I thought at first it was some sort of mold,
and the usual cleaning procedures (water, soft rag, mild detergent) do
clean off the worst of it, but not all of it.  It doesn't seem to have
eaten into the plastic. I have more experience dealing with instantaneous
disks or reel to reel tape. Is this a common thing, and what do you
recommend? Thank you for your assistance.

Esther Gillie
Music Digital Services Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Library
Administration
Music Library, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
2136 Music Building MC 056
1114 West Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801
217.244.4072 gillie@xxxxxxxx
fax 217.244.9097