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Originally Posted by Wil
Whenever anyone does anything, there is a reason and there is a REAL reason.
“There are other reasons why cards in slabs are removed,” explained Sue MacKay, director of Collections at the Hall of Fame Museum. “For instance, thicker slabs require more storage space, but the main reason we do it is we’re just not sure if the slabs might eventually damage the cards.” The REAL reason they're doing this is storage space. Everything else is just made up so they sound like they know what they're doing. |
Hmmm.....
Or I can believe the advice from oh.... like every conservator, archivist, curator....
Library of congress doesn't worry much about issues of storage space. But they do worry about acidity of paper items, so much so that they tried to develop a system to de-acidify books in massive quantities. It wasn't very successful.