[PADG:2343] Re: Environmental Monitoring Packages or Kits/sha red resources

["Cybulski, Walter (NIH/NLM)" <Cybulskw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, John:

This is a related question, hopefully of interest to others as well.  Can
you share any information regarding Cornell's ongoing calibration of the
InterNet monitoring devices?  Are the loggers cross-calibrated against any
other devices to check their accuracy?  Does the library use
hygrothermographs or psychrometers?  Or is the monitoring entirely
logger-based?  Thanks.

Walter Cybulski
Head, Quality Assurance Unit
Preservation and Collection Management Section
National Library of Medicine
301-496-2690

-----Original Message-----
From: John F. Dean [mailto:jfd5@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 1:32 PM
To: padg@xxxxxxx
Subject: [PADG:2342] Re: Environmental Monitoring Packages or Kits/shared
resources


Dear Patricia,
Cornell University is currently conducting workshops on environmental 
monitoring and needs assessment.  The monitoring program is based on 
InterNet dataloggers.  The South Central New York region currently has a 
program based on Cornell's monitoring program that loans dataloggers to 
libraries and archives in the region as part of the workshop program.  The 
workshops began several years ago and is part of a series that includes 
disaster and recovery, collection care, exhibition practices, mold control, 
care of graphic materials, reformatting, etc.  New York State is unique in 
that $500,000 per year of preservation funding is available among 
non-comprehensive research libraries for preservation proposals from mainly 
smaller libraries for a range of products and services, including 
monitoring equipment.  NYS also makes available $126,000 per year to each 
of eleven comprehensive research libraries with an additional $350,000 
available for cooperative grants among the same libraries.


At 09:23 AM 4/12/2004 -0600, you wrote:
>I am going to try to put together a list of states and organizations 
>that have environmental monitoring packages to be shared by libraries, 
>museums and archives in their respective areas.  Would you please 
>contact me off list if you know of such a package of equipment and 
>supplies in your general area? Pat Morris
>
>Patricia Morris
>Faculty Director, Preservation Department
>University Libraries
>University of Colorado at Boulder
>184 UCB
>Boulder, CO 80309-0184
>303/492-3849 FAX 303/492-0494
>Patricia.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxx

John F. Dean
Preservation and Conservation Librarian
Department of Preservation and Collection Maintenance
B32 Olin Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Telephone: (607)255-9687
Fax: (607)254-7493