Monitoring the environment All of the NARA Preservation departments keep detailed records on the climates in which we store the various types of media in our holdings. Ideal environmental parameters vary based on whether records are temporary or archival, and whether they are made of paper, film, or something else. NARA directive 1571, Archival Storage Standards, spells out the environmental guidelines we must follow. Many of us use Preservation Environment Monitors (nicknamed “PEMS”) which keep an ongoing record of the temperature and humidity in any given space. Four times a year, a Preservation Technician at NARA-St. Louis will visit each PEM and download the device’s climatic data onto a USB drive. The data is then loaded into a software program that saves the information and lets you compare it to ideal conditions for the media you’re storing. St. Louis is no stranger to heat and humidity, and the reason we moved to our new building was because our old building didn’t meet NARA 1571. Our new building enables us to maintain archival storage standards in any weather.
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Monitoring the environment

All of the NARA Preservation departments keep detailed records on the climates in which we store the various types of media in our holdings. Ideal environmental parameters vary based on whether records are temporary or archival, and whether they are made of paper, film, or something else. NARA directive 1571, Archival Storage Standards, spells out the environmental guidelines we must follow.

Many of us use Preservation Environment Monitors (nicknamed “PEMS”) which keep an ongoing record of the temperature and humidity in any given space. Four times a year, a Preservation Technician at NARA-St. Louis will visit each PEM and download the device’s climatic data onto a USB drive. The data is then loaded into a software program that saves the information and lets you compare it to ideal conditions for the media you’re storing.

St. Louis is no stranger to heat and humidity, and the reason we moved to our new building was because our old building didn’t meet NARA 1571. Our new building enables us to maintain archival storage standards in any weather.

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