Long Term Storage of Videotapes

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• Long Term Storage of Video Tape Bibliography

• Storage Guidelines Preservation

  Practical guidelines for short-term storage of videotapes recommend access storage at 60–73?F and 20–30% RH and advise lower temperatures for archival storage; access conditions are expected to keep tapes usable for ten years and fluctuations should be limited (no more than 7?F and 5–20% RH). The document advises monitoring temperature and humidity, allowing tapes to equilibrate before playback, choosing windowless, well-insulated rooms without carpets or food, using grounded metal shelving, storing tapes upright, avoiding magnetic fields, and storing duplicates separately. Cited resources include Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video (BAVC, 1998), Library of Congress Television and Video Preservation (1997), CLIR and Van Bogart reports, SMPTE RP 103-1995 and RP 190-1996, and links to ANSI, CLIR, NML and Solinet.

• Video Preservation - The Basics Preservation

  Table of Contents Acknowledgements Background and History Preservation Terms and Definitions: Publications, Resources and Links Video Terms Getting Started Preservation Planning and Management Preservation and Conservation Organizations - Profiles and Links Care and Handling of Tape Storage Guidelin…

• Preservation Terms and Definitions:  Publications, Resources and Links Preservation

  Collection of links and bibliographic references to glossaries and definitions for video preservation, consulting and treatment services, general archival terminology, audio archives, and media reformatting. Includes Video Preservation: Glossary of Terms by Rebecca Bachman (originally published 1996; reprinted in Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video, Bay Area Video Coalition, 1998); Obsolescence Ratings by Sarah Stauderman in the Video Format Identification Guide; and Magnetic Tape Storage and Handling by Dr. John W. Van Bogart (Commission on Preservation and Access, June 1995). Also lists the Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook (Media Alliance, 1998), resources from AIC, IASA, ARSC, ScreenSound Australia, ACVL, and references to SMPTE materials and digital conversion glossaries.

• Tape Formats and Hardware - Research and Planning Efforts Preservation

  Compiled directory of research, reference works and online sources concerning obsolete and endangered videotape formats and playback hardware. Entries cite organizations and projects including Experimental Television Center (Video History Project Tools), Independent Media Arts Preservation (resource-guide development), Media Alliance (Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook) and Specs Brothers (tape restoration); published references include Ampex, A Guide to Media and Formats (Redwood City, CA: Ampex, 1989) and Murphy, Television and Video Preservation (Library of Congress, 1997); online guides listed include Ampex Virtual Museum, Stauderman's Video Format Identification Guide (AIC Electronic Media SIG), VidiPax, and hardware resources such as AMIA-L, Dave Jones Design and the Dead Media Project.

• Care and Handling of Tape Preservation

  Practical guidelines for videotape care to prolong shelf life and prevent sticky shed, mold and drop out; addresses upright storage, temperature and humidity control, contamination and magnetic-field avoidance, proper rewinding, labeling, tape hubs and containers, shipping, and use of high-quality brand-name tapes for copying and preservation. Further reading cites Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video (Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco, 1998), Jim Lindner, William T. Murphy (Television and Video Preservation, Library of Congress, 1997), Debbie Hess Norris (AIC), John Van Bogart (CLIR) and Jim Wheeler; suppliers named include Light Works, Conservation Online, Conservation Resources International and G.M. Wylie.