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NEW and REVISED
Environmental Monitor Loan Programme
For AAO Institutional Members
The long running Thermohygrograph Loan Programme has now been retired. This
popular programme, available at no cost to Institutional Members of the AAO
for several years, has helped many institutions to monitor temperature and
relative humidity conditions within their archives. The resulting
information has helped archives to initiate improvements to environmental
conditions, or to acquire their own monitoring equipment. However, the age
of the AAO equipment and increasing costs to maintain and ship them to
members led the Preservation Committee to review the programme and to
recommend a change to the AAO Board, which they approved last winter.
As a previous announcement on the AAOLIST stated once the thermohygrographs
were retired those in good condition were offered on a first come basis to
AAO members, in exchange for a nominal donation to AAO. Environmental
monitoring however is a fundamental activity of preservation management that
has been supported and encouraged by the AAO through this loan programme.
To continue this valuable service the AAO has purchased five HOBO
temperature and relative humidity data loggers, which will now be made
available for institutional members to borrow at no cost. The Preservation
Consultant will continue to administer this loan programme as before, with
some changes. A data logger will be shipped free of charge to the borrowing
institution with instructions for set up and starting the recording dev ice.
The duration of the loan will still be a minimum of three months. Longer
loan periods may be negotiated subject to availability of a unit. At the
end of the loan the logger will be shipped back to the Preservation
Consultant who will download the data using the logger’s software programme.
A brief report will be sent back to the borrower showing the readings
recorded and what they mean.
Any questions about this loan programme, or a request to borrow a data
logger can be sent to:
Iona McCraith
AAO Preservation Consultant
(705) 277-1309
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