In 2005, the Library of Congress opened a state-of-the-art, high-density storage facility thirty miles from Capitol Hill at Fort Meade in Maryland. The facility was constructed on a modular basis: Modules 1 and 2 were designed for traditional bound library materials; Modules 3 and 4 (on which these webpages focus) were designed to house 22 million special-format collection items.
The Conservation Division Move Project team was charged with preparing especially challenging special format collections for off-site transport and storage. The collections came from eight custodial divisions across the Library and included a variety of formats such as globes, rolled architectural drawings, ephemera, large works of art on paper, photographs, negatives, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, rare folios and a variety of three-dimensional objects.
Sections of the Report Include:
+ Introduction & Planning
+ Globes
+ Objects
+ Rolled Drawings
+ Works of Art
+ Bound Volumes
+ Standard Archival Manuscript Collections
Source: Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress
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