{"id":421,"date":"2009-01-23T23:33:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T04:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=421"},"modified":"2009-01-23T23:33:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T04:33:23","slug":"washing-music-library-lps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/01\/23\/washing-music-library-lps\/","title":{"rendered":"Washing Music Library LPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 23, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Librarian Anne Shelley brought down a box of soon to be digitized LPs with the request that we clean them. We were happy to do so, as it would give us a chance to make sure that our dish drainer could convert itself into an LP drying rack. I set up the sink with two trays, one with water and a bit of photoflo for washing and a second &#8220;water only tray&#8221; for rinsing. I removed the LPs from their jackets and swabbed the labels to make sure that none would run in the water&#8211;only two seemed ready to run. I then quickly dipped the LPs in the wash, brushing them gently with a soft (tsukemawashibake) brush, one that we normally use for paste linings. I then propped them on the drying rack, perfectly sized for an LP, and let them dry for a short period. Next, I brushed them dry with a microfiber brush designed for vinyl records. Each record then got slipped back into its cover, with a new polyethelene sleeve for protection. This should remove any dust and greasy fingerprints from the surface that might otherwise interfere with the digitization.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-423\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9918.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-422\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2009\/01\/blog-dscn9918.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, January 23, 2009 Librarian Anne Shelley brought down a box of soon to be digitized LPs with the request that we clean them. We were happy to do so, as it would give us a chance to make sure that our dish drainer could convert itself into an LP drying rack. I set up<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2009\/01\/23\/washing-music-library-lps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Washing Music Library LPs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14,18],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}