{"id":932,"date":"2012-10-05T18:44:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=932"},"modified":"2012-10-05T18:44:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T18:44:20","slug":"keeping-an-eye-on-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/10\/05\/keeping-an-eye-on-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping an eye on the environment!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/10\/MG_7119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-933\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/10\/MG_7119-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/10\/MG_7119-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/10\/MG_7119-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>One of the more important aspects of overseeing a facility the size and value of the Watkinson is to control the environment.\u00a0 Leaky pipes, faulty HVAC systems, cracks in the foundation, and vermin (mice, bugs, naughty readers) are all potential threats to the collection, and must be kept at bay through CONSTANT VIGILANCE.\u00a0 Fortunately, Associate Curator Sally Dickinson is on the case, as she reports on a recent activity:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This September I attended a 2-day workshop on \u201cSustainable Preservation Practices for Managing Storage Environments.\u201d\u00a0 R.I.T.\u2019s Image Permanence Institute presented the workshop at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC (funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.)\u00a0 Curators, librarians, and facilities professionals attended, including staff from the Smithsonian Institute and other cultural organizations in the Northeast.\u00a0 We had a crash course in how artifacts age, what makes an optimal preservation climate to prolong the life of materials, and how to achieve these conditions through sustainable use of climate control systems.\u00a0 The Image Permanence Institute is a leader in the research of how materials age and climate management strategies for cultural institutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more important aspects of overseeing a facility the size and value of the Watkinson is to control the environment.\u00a0 Leaky pipes, faulty HVAC systems, cracks in the foundation, and vermin (mice, bugs, naughty readers) are all potential threats to the collection, and must be kept at bay through CONSTANT VIGILANCE.\u00a0 Fortunately, Associate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions\/934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}