Re: storage of microfilms

["Walter Cybulski" <CYBULSKW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please note that MS23-1998 is not the standard that covers microfilm storage.  MS23 addresses production, inspection and quality assurance issues for first generation silver microforms.  It includes only a brief note on film storage, referencing the standard that does cover microfilm storage: ANSI/NAPM IT9.11-1993, IMAGING MEDIA - PROCESSED SAFETY PHOTOGRAPHIC FILMS - STORAGE.  It is available from ANSI for $48.00, though a revised edition is forthcoming (see Doug Nishimira's ANSI update in Cons Dist List Inst. 12:9, July 1998).

ANSI/NAPM IT9.11 contains essentially the same warning that is given in the Technical Report I had previously cited in response to Wes's question (ANSI/AIIM TR13-1998, Preservation of Microforms in an Active Environment).  ANSI/NAPM IT9.11 states: "Films may have possible interactions with other films that are of a different generic type (e.g. diazo and silver-gelatin) ...  Films of different generic types shall not be interfiled or be in physical contact" (Section 4.2.2).

As the titles of the documents indicate, there are not two deparate storage standards.  IT9.11 is the storage STANDARD; TR13 is a TECHNICAL REPORT that provides additional useful information regarding microforms stored in active use environments.

- Walter Cybulski
National Library of Medicine

>>> Abbey Publications <abbeypub@xxxxxxxxx> 11/08 5:32 PM >>>
Robin Dale at RLG just told me Friday that there is an ANSI/AIIM standard
that covers storage of microfilm:  MS 23.  It was updated this year to
include a section on storage as well as the usual stuff on manufacture.  It
costs $40 for members of ANSI or AIIM, $52 for nonmembers.


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