{"id":146,"date":"2008-07-10T21:26:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T02:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=146"},"modified":"2008-07-10T21:26:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T02:26:53","slug":"flattening-lp-covers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2008\/07\/10\/flattening-lp-covers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flattening LP Covers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 10, 2008<\/p>\n<p>These LP covers were saturated with flood water. Many of them were printed on coated paper which means we couldn&#8217;t clean them until they were dry because the water would wash away the image.\u00a0 We used drying racks and a stack dryer which is pictured below. They were hung\u00a0up until they were almost completely dry and were then placed in the dryer to be flattened with weight. Each layer in the stack dryer consists of four record covers sandwiched between two thick cotton blotter sheets and two pieces of cardboard. This insures the moisture is wicked away into the padding materials instead of staying damp or transferring moisture to the other covers.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2008\/12\/blog-recovery-034a-cleaning-lps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 9px;border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2008\/12\/blog-recovery-034a-cleaning-lps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2008\/12\/blog-recovery-036-cleaning-lps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148 aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 9px;border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2008\/12\/blog-recovery-036-cleaning-lps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2008\/12\/blog-recovery-036-cleaning-lps.jpg 357w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2008\/12\/blog-recovery-036-cleaning-lps-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, July 10, 2008 These LP covers were saturated with flood water. Many of them were printed on coated paper which means we couldn&#8217;t clean them until they were dry because the water would wash away the image.\u00a0 We used drying racks and a stack dryer which is pictured below. They were hung\u00a0up until they<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2008\/07\/10\/flattening-lp-covers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Flattening LP Covers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,12,15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}