In Cons Dist List vol. 31 Issue 46, Lynsey Haworth asks for advice on setting an environmental specification in historic house museums.
I can report that ISO Technical Report TR 19815 "Management of environmental conditions for libraries and archives" will shortly be published. Despite its title, this publication contains a framework for putting into practice the principles set out in PAS 198 - how to set an environmental specification that is appropriate for your specific collection, in your specific building, in your specific climatic zone. In other words, it gets away from the "one size fits all" 20°/50% specification, which might be appropriate for a museum in Western Europe, but not necessarily for any other institution in any other place, and asks the user of the document to think for themselves about the needs of their collection and what their building and its environmental management systems (if any) are capable of delivering, and then to set an environmental specification that is achievable. Dr Barry Knight Conservation Scientist St Albans England ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
