Slow fire

Slow fire

A slow fire is a term used in library and information science to describe paper embrittlement resulting from acid decay. The term is taken from the title of Terry Sanders' 1987 film "Slow Fires: On the preservation of the human record."

Solutions to this problem include the use of acid-free paper stocks, reformatting brittle books by microfilming, photocopying or digitization, and a variety of deacidification techniques.

ee also

*Wood-pulp paper
*

External links

* [http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/baird99.pdf Extinguishing slow fires: cooperative preservation efforts]
* [http://www.clir.org/pubs/film/film.html Slow fires: on the preservation of the human record]
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287709/ "Slow fires" at IMDB]


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