We are spending today getting some frozen books out of the freezer and into the fume hood so they can over the weekend.
Our freezer has been working overtime this year with all the pipe leaks and other collections emergencies we have had.
What’s in your freezer? Let us know in the comments, or send us a picture on Facebook or Twitter.
We are getting the first large collections that have been selected for freezing into our freezer. We are following the National Park Service’s guidelines for packaging photographic materials for freezing.
Lucy Vanderkamp worked with us to wrap these boxes of negatives. We got better and faster at wrapping as we went along. By about box ten we felt like experts.
If you are unfamiliar with the NPS “Conserve-O-Gram” series, there is an awesome amount of information there. Check them out.
