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Managing the Environment for Preservation: Our Philosophy |
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The WebERA Project |
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The PEM2® Enters the Market! |
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Data Logger Comparison |
 Name:
Lénia Fernandes
Where were you born?
In Funchal, the capital of Madeira Island, which is part of the Portuguese territory.
What is your field or your primary area of interest?
Professionally, I have to say Conservation, particularly Photography.
What was your very first job?
My first and only paying job so far (and hopefully not the last), consisted of taking the trash out and wrapping gifts...
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Welcome to the Climate Notes Newsletter!
Climate Notes is a free e-newsletter published by the Image Permanence Institute and designed for collection care staff in cultural institutions. Climate Notes will cover a wide range of topics related to managing the environment for preservation. It will include feature articles, current research and technology, information about collection vulnerabilities, and preservation myths. Climate Notes will be published on a quarterly basis.
IPI has formulated a new definition of the preservation environment and has developed tools and procedures that allow cultural institutions to understand and improve long-term preservation of collections.
IPI’s view is based on thirty years of research into accelerated aging, equilibration rates, image stability, the effects of pollution, and material decay in general. IPI has put its research into practice at hundreds of institutions in the US and abroad...
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About the Project
IPI’s primary research and development activity in 2008-2009 is WebERA (Web-based Environmental Risk Assessment). The WebERA project includes members of IPI as well as a team of ten museum and five library research partners. The ten museums involved in the project are Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Shelburne Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Museum of National History...
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IPI's Preservation Environment Monitor
The first Preservation Environment Monitor® (PEM®) was produced over a decade ago by IPI with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The original PEM is now in use in several hundred museums and libraries in the US and abroad. This model is no longer available, but it is still fully supported by IPI.
The PEM2
The PEM2 was introduced in January 2008. This compact, highly accurate monitor is the easiest-to-use device...
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Wondering what sets the PEM2 apart from the rest of the available data loggers?
We have created a comparision chart where you can compare the PEM2 to the rest of the data loggers that are available on the market.
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