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It is a cjuitc new development that the precarious condition of the books and archival documents originating from the period of early industrial papermaking has found broader attention in the mind of people who feel themselves responsible for the cultural heritage of humanity and has provoked their activity. A decade ago in the United States two decades -these people tended either towards leniently smiling when specialists active in combating paper decay warned against this danger and asked for remedies, or they evoked apocalyptic scenarios of the loss of our culture and called for the activity of scientists to develop techniques to save the cultural heritage. Now there is some activity and some planning among themselves. Brainpower is activated to face the different aspects of the problem. Committees are established, meetings arc organized and the management of libraries and archives is augmented with a special office for preservation.One question is deciding where to focus the most attention, i.e., the question of selection. This is not related to deacidification. Regarding this mass treatment for which I hope there will be appropriate processes in the near future, the only imaginable principle of selection is: all books or, more precisely, all needing this process, or, most precisely, all needing no more than it. In general: all books made of acidic paper, i.e., those produced in the period from the beginning of industrial paper-making until the full change to alkaline papermaking in the (1 hope) near future. A relevant programme should begin with the climax of this period (1870-1970) and be expanded from this time successively to the beginning and to the end. The beginning: 1816 according to John Murray's famous notice, 1 or 1807, i.e., the year of the relevant "patent". 2 The end: the full change to alkaline paper-making. To deacidify one or the other book not needing deacidification or some others needing more than deacidification wastes less money than lengthy selection procedures would. For deacidification, no selection is the best choice, as this method does not harm any material of the book, neither ink nor binding material.
It is a cjuitc new development that the precarious condition of the books and archival documents originating from the period of early industrial papermaking has found broader attention in the mind of people who feel themselves responsible for the cultural heritage of humanity and has provoked their activity. A decade ago in the United States two decades -these people tended either towards leniently smiling when specialists active in combating paper decay warned against this danger and asked for remedies, or they evoked apocalyptic scenarios of the loss of our culture and called for the activity of scientists to develop techniques to save the cultural heritage. Now there is some activity and some planning among themselves. Brainpower is activated to face the different aspects of the problem. Committees are established, meetings arc organized and the management of libraries and archives is augmented with a special office for preservation.One question is deciding where to focus the most attention, i.e., the question of selection. This is not related to deacidification. Regarding this mass treatment for which I hope there will be appropriate processes in the near future, the only imaginable principle of selection is: all books or, more precisely, all needing this process, or, most precisely, all needing no more than it. In general: all books made of acidic paper, i.e., those produced in the period from the beginning of industrial paper-making until the full change to alkaline papermaking in the (1 hope) near future. A relevant programme should begin with the climax of this period (1870-1970) and be expanded from this time successively to the beginning and to the end. The beginning: 1816 according to John Murray's famous notice, 1 or 1807, i.e., the year of the relevant "patent". 2 The end: the full change to alkaline paper-making. To deacidify one or the other book not needing deacidification or some others needing more than deacidification wastes less money than lengthy selection procedures would. For deacidification, no selection is the best choice, as this method does not harm any material of the book, neither ink nor binding material.
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