[PADG:883] Re: ALA, Physical Quality & Treatment Discussion Group

["John F. Dean" <jfd5@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ethel,
I will be unable to attend the ALA meeting.  However, I feel very strongly
that conservation treatment statistics in the ARLs need to be significantly
refined.  For example, two hours is the maximum time counted for treatment,
and this fails to capture items that have taken perhaps six hours or even
twenty hours each to treat.  Thus if I have six items that have averaged
ten hours each, the stats will show "six items at two hours or more."  This
does not provide enough differentiation.


At 12:33 PM 01/12/2000 -0500, you wrote:
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>Ethel E. Hellman
>Collections Conservator for Widener Library
>Widener Library - Room D-25
>Harvard University
>Cambridge, MA  02138
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>tele: 617/495-3494
>fax: 617/495-0403
John F. Dean
Director
Department of Preservation and Conservation
215 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Telephone: (607)255-9687
Fax: (607)254-7493