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microenvironment

n.PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION  •  the physical conditions of temperature, air quality, relative humidity, and other factors that exist in immediate proximity to archival records, such as within an envelope, box, film can, exhibit case, or the film of air surrounding the bound volumes on a shelf
 
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macroenvironment
 
Cited In
Bigourdan, Jean-Louis, and James M. Reilly, “Effectiveness of Storage Conditions in Controlling the Vinegar Syndrome: Preservation Strategies for Acetate Base Motion-Picture Film Collections,” Image and Sound Archiving and Access: The Challenges of the 3rd Millennium, Proceedings of the Joint Technical Symposium Paris 2000, M. Aubert and R. Billeaud, eds. (Paris: CNC, May 2000): 14‒34.

Lacher-Feldman, Jessica L., Exhibits in Archives and Special Collections Libraries (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2013): 56.

Manning, Ralph W. and Virginie Kremp, eds., A Reader in Preservation and Conservation (The Hague: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, 2000): 117.

Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn, Preserving Archives and Manuscripts (Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2010): 111, 284.
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