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May 14 2009

For the Record: First Box of Czech/Slovak Museums LPs Done!

Posted byElizabeth StonePosted inFlood Recovery, Materials, equipment and procedures, National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library, Object conservation

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Filing the record with corresponding album cover For months now we have been slugging away, dry cleaning the Czech Museum’s LP album covers, and we are just past the half-way point. As we get closer to the end, we are filling the area that currently houses the clean records and the clean covers. I thought it may be a good time to take a break from dry cleaning and make some room by combining a box of records with its partner box of covers. 

This morning I completed the final wash on one box of records. After the records dried, I brushed them one last time with a micro-fiber brush and sleeved them. I then retrieved the corresponding box with the album covers from their cozy storage area and set to work reuniting the LPs.  Stunningly, a good portion of them seemed to be in order. A little shuffling was needed, but they are all here and clean and upstairs.