CD-ROM packaging for storage and access

["Alan Howell" <AHOWELL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Continuing the topic commented on recently by Alice Carli, I was
recently at the State Library of Victoria, Australia,
(http://www.slv.vic.gov.au ) and saw an elegant solution to the
storage of CDs and floppy disks.  To quote from my notes:

"CDs and floppy disks are inter-filed into the appropriate general
sequence in stack (except music CDs and videos which are stored
separately). An innovative `book-like' housing has been devised for
CDs and floppy disks so that electronic resources may be housed with
their accompanying literature (if any). Each floppy disk or CD-ROM
is placed into an 320 mm x 235 mm x12 mm wallet made from die-cut,
creased, translucent polyester. The wallet also contains a 7 mm thick
piece of white polyethylene (?) sheeting from which one - or more -
107 mm x 96 mm areas is/are cut if the wallet contains floppy
disk(s), or from which one - or more - 125 mm x 141 mm areas is/are
cut if the wallet contains CD-ROM(s). All these measurements are
approximate. Floppy disks are placed inside polyester wallets and
CD-ROMs inside jewel cases, if they are not supplied as such.

This arrangement allows instruction sheets (there are three of them) to be
included in each package which is labelled on its outside."

Further information would be available from:

Ms Johann Alcock
Acting Head Conservator, State Library of Victoria 
328 Swanston Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000 
Telephone: 03 9669 9955 
Facsimile: 03 9669 9616 
E-mail: jalcock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 





Alan G. Howell
Preservation Manager, State Library of NSW
Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.
Telephone: (+61) 2 9273 1679, mobile (+61) 0411 154 392
Fax: (+61) 2 9273 1265, E-mail: ahowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx