Happy National Chemistry Week! | Smithsonian Institution Archives Even the dirt on a book or paper document can provide valuable context to its narrative and be historically significant. Consider the dirt on a buried Roman artifact<http://criticalissuesinartconservation.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-cleaning-art-can-reveal-or-take.html> - should it be cleaned off for aesthetic reasons? Or left alone, as it is a necessary link to its past? These are the types of questions I must face when trying to preserve the Smithsonian's materials for future generations to enjoy and research. And as it turns out, the "dirt" on my most recent treatment, Joseph Henry's *Record of Experiments Book I*, has given us quite the story to tell. And we're quite glad we didn't sweep it away into the dustbin. http://bit.ly/TI3a4X Source: http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/happy-national-chemistry-week See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/TI3a4X+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers 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]