Wunsch Conservation Lab

Intro to the Lab (Jana)

When to flag and bring to conservation

• If you can’t folder something - doesn’t fit in standard box size - goes to conservation. Flag it when processing and bring it over. Better to bring over multiple items / concerns rather than one at a time. Bring it to Wunsch Lab during the Thursday morning open hours (9:30am - noon) or make an appointment.

• If it stinks - make an appointment and sign up to use the hood - processors do this in Wunsch - not Wunsch staff - if stink persists make appointment for it to go

• High profile projects should go to conservation regardless

• Weekly practice - bring boxes on a weekly basis Thursday mornings they are always available for walk-ins.

• Custom housing and interior retrofitting - by appointment - need to come with 2 questions - 1: Do you have space / where will it go? (this means final resting spot - what is space on shelf?) 2: What are limitations (max height, width, depth)? - these questions can be conversation/consult - ideally be done in final resting place of the item  

• Flow / workflow - when creating work plan would consult with Wunsch

• criteria for sending materials for preservation/conservation treatment

• Flag for conservation

• Mold - they can put it under the hood and put carbon pieces with it

• workflow for tracking materials sent and actions taken - chain of custody (sign-in book) ConservationSpace or TMS

• link to ASpace guide: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements; Processing Information

Common supplies

Wunsch - how they label things, common supplies across all of IASC (bigger discussion)

Workflow:

Pre-custodial:

Could consult on acquisitions

Post-custodial:

Tagging records that come out of collections

JUST Archives NON-BOOKS-archival ingesting

!.) Conservation does not make decisions around the state of an artifact or its housing by ourselves. It is always 100% a conversation and decision with the custorial liaison.

We don’t throw original materials away and give those items back to the custodial unit.

Your archival team needs to own your part of the partnership.

1. We all need to know where are records are

2. Who decides-What stays on campus and what goes to IASC

1. On campus- selected archival material and

1. List of items that are stored on campus, all these records

2. Corporation

3. Office of the dean

4. Oversized

2. OFF-HD-What is at HD? 27,000 boxes (they could be paige, flat, doc boxes, etc.)

1. HD will have anything that has the lid that goes all the way down

3. OFF-Iron Mountain-1 accession MIT video productions (MVP) formerly AMPs

1. We don’t know how big this is, possibly 400–500 boxes

2. What is in our on campus storage space?

3. In your experience, archives staff

4. Did someone do a conservation assessment of the ASC records that are

1. On campus

2. Off campus

5. Conservation walk through Walk through of th

6. Conservation types of projects for Process for Accessions

Daily practice

-daily processing-business as usual

Weekly practice 

(what is the intake volume per week, typically)

(new to conservation)

If you can’t folder it, sleeve it, sub folder it, or box, you flag it.

If it stinks, you make an appointment, and you sign up to use the fume hood and the nilflisk?

If you can’t get rid of the stink and a problem to serve, make an appointment to come to conservation.

If you are processing and you don’t want to slow down your flow, you flag (we give you an infinite supply of acid free flags) . E.g. You have 18 doc boxes on a cart, 50 folders in a box, and only one needs conservation, flag it, send  

Phase out out paige, they are too heavy lift, pest can live in corrugation.

Quarterly planned project - are equivalent to background tasking of us

1. Backlog projects that we have can cycle through conservation

2. Chris has a list

3. If you have a backlog wish list, we can form a que and we can process them through conservation for any

Make appointment immediately with conservation

Rush Projects (e.g., discoveries, lobby 10 posters, Science March)

-make an appointment immediately

High profile archive, make an appointment with conservation or know that we have the thursday morning slot is always free for any walk-in

Oversized/odd shaped

Digital projects