Donna,
 
You can use Velum. Paper is a litle transitory for true long term storage. Microfilm is a proven technoogy for a hundred years or so. Whether micorfilm will last the five hundred years promised... I will have to get back to you in four-hundred years or so. You could invest isn Norsam(R). Tehy use a nickel uridium disk for storage and read it with an electron microscope. Seems liek pretty cool technology. If I remember corretly, they promise something like 10,000 years. You can look into the feasability of stone. Some stone records have lasted thousands of years. The engraving technology has made great strides since Peter was a young scrbe. Of course if you want a true perspective on long term storage you should ping Larry, He has been in the profeson since 1972 B.C.
 
 
Chris Flynn> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 09:11:40 -0500> From: [log in to unmask]> Subject: Media for long term preservation of records> To: [log in to unmask]> > Good morning all.> > In this electronic/digitized age, what media(s) is considered suitable for long term storage/preservation of records?> > Trying to get the latest opinions and solutions on the subject.> Thanks,> Donna> > > > Donna K. Bridges> Director> State of Tennessee> Records Management Division> 843 Cowan Street> Nashville, TN 37243> > phone: (615) 741-1718> fax: (615) 741-5327> > email: [log in to unmask]> > List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html> Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance> To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.> mailto:[log in to unmask]
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