Please provide a brief narrative description of the preservation program, and describe specific preservation projects being undertaken by the Library and their anticipated duration.
Rochester
(Program narrative description to be submitted later)
Preservation grant projects
- Preservation Photocopying of Oversized Ozalid Music Scores
photocopying and binding 776 brittle oversized scores produced by the ozalid process
- Isoperms for Color Photography
A photographic preservation research and development project evaluating the cost-effectiveness of present or planned storage environments for color photographic materials
- Enclosures and Air Pollution in Image Preservation
A photographic preservation research project investigating the effects of selected pure pollutant gases and combinations of gases on photographic materials and the efficacy of commonly available protective boxes, envelopes, and sleeves
- New York State Use Based Microfilming Project
Preservation microfilming of brittle materials identifed through the circulation returns procedure.
- Preservation Reformatting of Theater Drawings and Posters
Color microfiche project for over-sized materials
- A Pilot Test of the Bookkeeper Mass Deacidification Process
400 book test of the Bookkeeper process
- New York State Coordinated Science Serials Microfilming Project
Preservation microfilming of science serials
- Preservation Reformatting of the Films of the Kenneth B. Keating Collection
(NEH proposal pending)