{"id":1373,"date":"2015-04-24T16:26:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T20:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journals.cortland.edu\/wordpress\/library\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2015-04-24T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T20:26:52","slug":"preservation-week-april-26-may-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/2015\/04\/24\/preservation-week-april-26-may-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Preservation Week April 26-May 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/preservation-week.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1374 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/preservation-week.jpg\" alt=\"preservation week\" width=\"310\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Libraries, museums, archives and other organizations work every day to preserve cultural history.\u00a0 Over 4.8 billion artifacts are held in public trust by more than 30,000 archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, scientific research collections and archaeological repositories in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Key environmental factors that place collections at risk:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Light:<\/strong> Ultraviolet rays from natural and artificial sources can cause fading and disintegration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pollutants<\/strong>: Dust is abrasive and can accelerate harmful chemical reactions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heat<\/strong>: High temperatures can accelerate deterioration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moisture<\/strong>: High humidity promotes mold growth, corrosion, and degradation, while excessive<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dryness <\/strong>can cause drying and cracking. Fluctuations between extremes can cause warping, buckling and flaking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Tips\u00a0from the American Library Association for preserving\u00a0your treasures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/preservation-week-tips.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1375\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/04\/preservation-week-tips.jpg\" alt=\"preservation week tips\" width=\"272\" height=\"743\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries, museums, archives and other organizations work every day to preserve cultural history.\u00a0 Over 4.8 billion artifacts are held in public trust by more than 30,000 archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, scientific research collections and archaeological repositories in the United States. Key environmental factors that place collections at risk: Light: Ultraviolet rays from natural and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}