Environmental Monitoring of UASC 2018
FAIN: PG-263471-19
Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL 60616-3732)
Adam Strohm (Project Director: April 2018 to March 2021)
The purchase and installation of environmental
monitoring equipment and the analysis of temperature and relative humidity
conditions for the university’s archives and special collections. Consisting of 1,000 individual collections
totaling 4,400 linear feet, the holdings include institutional records,
correspondence, maps, minutes, reports, audio recordings, and student
newspapers documenting the history of the Institute and its alumni and faculty,
as well as the Near South Side and “Bronzeville” neighborhoods of Chicago. Among the personal papers of former faculty members
are transcripts of some of the earliest interviews conducted with Holocaust
survivors by David Pablo Boder, author of the book, I Did Not Interview the Dead (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1949).
The Paul V. Galvin Library at the Illinois Institute of Technology seeks a $3,297 Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to implement an environmental monitoring program for the University Archives and Special Collections. This project would entail the placement of five dataloggers in locations in which UASC collections are stored, and will result in a final report of the monitoring results and analysis of environmental risks to UASC collections. The project would be the first comprehensive environmental monitoring of the UASC spaces since the University Archives was instituted in 1998, and would be the first step in establishing in instituting a long-term sustainable preservation plan for University Archives and Special Collections to mitigate the environmental threats posed to the UASC collections by a lack of adequate climate control, and the age of the library building and its mechanical systems.
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Environmental Monitoring of University Archives and Special Collections: Final Report and Analysis (Report)Title: Environmental Monitoring of University Archives and Special Collections: Final Report and Analysis
Author: Adam Strohm
Abstract: This is the final report and analysis of activities conducted as part of Environmental Monitoring of University Archives and Special Collections, a project funded by a Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (PG-263471-19). This grant was awarded to support the first evercsystematic environmental monitoring of the UASC spaces. This report includes a summary of the collected data, analysis of the data, and potential future activities to be undertaken as a result of the grant activities and the data collected.
Date: 07/31/2020
Primary URL:
http://hdl.handle.net/10560/islandora:1009829Primary URL Description: Link to the metadata record and download links for the report in Illinois Tech's institutional repository.
Access Model: Open access