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Re: Post-it Notes in collections



I'll be interested to see how folks feel about the way I've been handling post-it notes.

Where the arrangement of the note appears significant (seldom), such as positioned at a certain point or with an arrow, etc., I have photocopied the affected page, then removed the note, and placed the photocopy and the original one after the other in an appropriate folder.

However, it seems to me that most of the time the post-it has just been slapped on the paper, without significant positioning.  In this case, I treat the page the same way I do more than one sheet of paper clipped or stapled together.  When I remove the clip or staple, I fold a piece of acid-free paper in half and use it to wrap the papers.  When there is a post-it note involved, I do the
same thing, but then remove the note and place it on top of the wrapper.  That way it is in the same relative position it was before, above the sheet it was on, but the adhesive is not on the paper, and it is not obscuring any part of the page.

I learned the wrapping technique while at Stanford, and have since seen this way of grouping papers preferred on this list.  It avoids both the metal ions in paper clips (whether they rust or not) and the dents produced by any clip, both in the pages clipped and the surrounding pages.  When I encountered single pages with post-it notes, it just seemed like an easy solution to keeping the
note with the document.

Arel Lucas
Project Archivist
Tobacco Control Archives
University of California at San Francisco
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Katherine Hayes wrote:

> Looking for suggestions or examples of how Post-It notes have been handled in processing collections.
>
> We thought we'd photocopy (onto acid-free paper, of course) the entire page, with note in place. Then remove the note and keep photocopy in front of original. This was after tossing around whether to photocopy just the note on a blank sheet, or cut the photocopied note out and clip it to original. These two options seemed like a lot of work, and the context might get lost or confused.
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