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