Vacuum Freeze-Drying, a Method Used to Salvage Water-Damaged Archival and Library Materials: A RAMP Study with Guidelines (UNESCO, 1987): (introduction...)

Vacuum Freeze-Drying, a Method Used to Salvage Water-Damaged Archival and Library Materials: A RAMP Study with Guidelines (UNESCO, 1987)

		*(introduction...)*
		Preface
		Foreword
		1. Introduction
		2. Water-soaked paper
		3. Stabilization by freezing
		4. Vacuum freeze-drying
		5. Alternate methods of drying
		6. Vacuum freeze-drying vs vacuum-drying
		7. freeze-drying is not a new process
		8. Early experiments in freeze-drying books and documents
		9. The use of vacuum chambers for recovery of water-damaged archival and library materials
		10. Other vacuum and freeze-drying activities
		11. Commercial sources for freezing and drying
		12. Cost of vacuum-drying and freeze-drying
		13. Low cost freezing and drying in an emergency
		14. What freeze-drying will not do
		15. Cooperative approach to the use of freeze-dry chambers
		16. An open forum on freeze-drying
		17. A final word: disaster preparedness planning
		18. References

(introduction...)

prepared by
John M. McCleary

General Information Programme and UNISIST

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Original: English
PGI-87/WS/7
Paris, April 1987

Recommended catalogue entry:

McCLEARY (John P.).- Vacuum freeze-drying, a method used to salvage water-damaged archival and library materials: a RAMP study with guidelines/prepared by John P. McCleary/for the/General Information Programme and UNISIST. - Paris: Unesco, 1987. - vii, 63 p; 30 cm. - (PGI-87/WS/7)

I - Title
II - Unesco. General Information Programme and UNISIST
III - Records and Archives Management Programme (RAMP)