Dear All,
Those of you have visited will know we are a small impecunious record
office. We currently have a collection of papers, many of which are modern
A4 and A3 sizes, which are currently stored ( as from the depositor ) in
elderly,decrepit ring-binders. Many of the individual sheets are in "paper
unfriendly" plastic wallets. The collection is well organised but badly
packaged.
We are trying to get this collection ready for the public, but have very
little money for its preparation. Ideally we wanted to transfer the contents
of the folders into archivally-acceptable equivalents...but it's too dear.
Then we thought of Western Manuscript folders...but they're too dear( though
very nice of course!), then we thought of archive-tape-and-archival-board
"sandwiches" of the contents of each individual ring binder...but apart from
the problems of carving up conservation board it's still very dear. We've
now thought about it for so long we think we might have forgotten something
really obvious !
Can anyone advise us of a cheap way of packaging 160 A4 ring binders' worth
of modern paper ? Sorry to sound so penny-pinching but we're really
non-plussed with this situation !
All best wishes,
Helen
Ceredigion
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