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Preservation in the news



The Dec. 9, 2000 issue of Science News has a three-page article,
"Making Stuff Last" about the problems of preservation of museum
display items.  It includes a sidebar, "Locking Away Tomorrow's
History" on time capsules, a subject that comes up on this list
periodically. This has a URL for a site the Smithsonian has put up
about time capsules at:

http://www.si.edu/scmre/timecaps.html

The article is quite interesting: plastic dolls made in the 1950s and
1960s contact a toxic material, biological specimens preserved in
formaldehyde are actually deteriorating at the molecular level, space
suits deteriorating, etc.



Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Special Collections Librarian/Archivist

Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY  12538
(845) 451-1757
c_crawfo@culinary.edu

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