Chair of Business Information Management
The students undertaking Preservation Principles in Adelaide have
been given the opportunity to undertake a salvage exercise at Artlab,
Salvage exercise, Artlab Australia. Session was led by Preventive
Conservator,
Anne Dineen. As you will see
the students had hands on experience.
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| demonstration of disaster bin No 4 within Artlab | ||||
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| water damaged items soaking waiting for retrieval | Photos successfully salvaged and hanging to dry | |||
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Salvaging ‘artworks’ demonstration of using ‘remay’ to support water damaged items |
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| Removing plastic cover to prevent mould – dye from cover is ‘running' | interleaving pages with blotting paper this will absorb the moisture from the pages | |||
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| salvaging a waterlogged book |
Open book to dry out |
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| Paper back swollen when became wet | drying out on blotting paper – wet pages are fragile |
supporting and interleaving pages with blotting paper |
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| pages are interleaved with blotting paper | blotting paper needs to be changed regularly | water logged paperback drying out on blotting paper | ||
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Salvaged CD's in rack drying |
Drying textiles and a boot. 'Realia’ are frequently part of historical collections |
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