Hi Sarah,

Apologies for the snappy response, I was about to leave the office for a meeting when your email caught my eye!  

In short, our storage unit achieve an RH of 30-32% which apparently is pretty great for storing our growing film and tape based collections.

Temperature isn’t as much of a concern as RH though it’s best to keep the material in as cold an environment as possible which you seem to have.

One thing I’d advise against is taking in nitrate based film material which is highly volatile and can cause danger to your existing archive collections. If you would like more advice on that I’d be happy for my Technical Officer to contact you as has developed expertise in identifying nitrate from non-nitrate. We do not accept nitrate material and always encourage people to contact the BFI who have specialist cold storage for material of that nature.

Please feel free to contact me off list if you would like further input.

All the best,

Stacey

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