[PADG:1262] FW: CD-ROM assessments

["Grant, Tyra" <tgrant@xxxxxx>]

[Apologies...here are the links.]

Emily,
Three recent works; I suspect you have these but not sure others have
seen all three.
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001477/147782E.pdf

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/gipwog/Public%20SP%20500-263%20November%2
02005.pdf#search=%22NIST%20and%20disk%20longevity%22

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Forum-Bestandserhaltung/downloads/iraci.pdf
 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-padg@xxxxxxx [mailto:owner-padg@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Emily
Rainwater
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:18 PM
To: padg@xxxxxxx
Subject: [PADG:1255] CD-ROM assessments

Hello all,

I am a graduate student currently enrolled in a Preservation Management
class.  My partner and I will be conducting a needs assessment survey on
a collection of CD-ROMs.  However, we are having some trouble finding
examples of past surveys from other libraries.
Since we don't have the equipment needed to test the BLER, we plan on
doing a visual inspection for disc rot, hurricane patterns, scratches,
fingerprints, label failure, etc. and a readability test, i.e. will it
play on the computers available at the library and what software does it
require.  Has anyone done an assessment on CD-ROMs?  Any suggestions for
additional items to be included in the survey would be greatly
appreciated.

Best,
Emily Rainwater