Translations:Materiële bewaring van je fysiek archief/4/en

• Remove any elements that could damage the documents – such as paperclips, staples, elastic/rubber bands, plastic folders, ring binders – along with any unnecessary paper folders, blotting paper, etc.
• Documents that are held together with harmful materials – such as paperclips, staples and elastic/rubber bands, etc. – must still be kept together, however. Use a large sheet (A3) of (acid-free) paper folded in half with the documents inside, and replace ring binders with (acid-free) boxes.

Before removing any original packaging, always make sure it doesn’t contain any information that could be useful for describing the documents. If it does, copy these details across to the new packaging.

• It’s best to store paper flat in a cardboard box, but you can roll up large sheets of paper if there isn’t enough room. Always avoid folding, though!
• If you want to label the paper documents, use a soft pencil on the back of the paper.

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