{"id":11865,"date":"2015-01-26T08:04:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=11865"},"modified":"2015-01-26T08:04:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T13:04:04","slug":"some-astounding-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/26\/some-astounding-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Some astounding numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The January\/February issue of the <em>Library of Congress Magazine<\/em> is devoted to \u201cThe Science of Preservation\u201d and contains short articles written for the non-specialist on such topics as the use of hyperspectral imaging to study Thomas Jefferson\u2019s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, the lifespan of digital media, and mass deacidification of paper based items. While all of these articles will be edifying for the publication\u2019s wide audience (it is distributed free of charge to publicly supported libraries and research institutions, academic libraries, and learned societies in the U.S.), the page with the greatest impact may well be \u201cPreservation by the Numbers\u201d which lists the numbers of items from the Library\u2019s collection that are treated in a year. A few of the astounding numbers: 1,098,488 volumes and sheets deacidified, 162,462 items bound, and 37,725 photographs rehoused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The January\/February issue of the Library of Congress Magazine is devoted to \u201cThe Science of Preservation\u201d and contains short articles written for the non-specialist on such topics as the use of hyperspectral imaging to study Thomas Jefferson\u2019s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, the lifespan of digital media, and mass deacidification of paper based &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/01\/26\/some-astounding-numbers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some astounding numbers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}