{"id":271,"date":"2018-02-06T14:03:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T14:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2018-05-03T14:05:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T14:05:27","slug":"archive-a-z-b-is-for-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2018\/02\/06\/archive-a-z-b-is-for-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Archive A-Z: B is for boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It won&#8217;t surprise you that Dorset History Centre contains a LOT of boxes. Our environmentally controlled repositories have a capacity of around <b>49,000<\/b> archive boxes \u2013 not including oversize items. The boxes are made from materials that won&#8217;t have any negative effects on the unique items they contain.\u00a0<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Collections arrive with us in various states of organisation. Nearly always, we will re-package the contents into archive-friendly envelopes, folders and boxes. This helps preserve the documents and makes labelling and finding them easier. Our Conservator can make bespoke boxes for any item which is a strange shape or has a particular need.<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-192\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" id=\"longdesc-return-192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192\" src=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2016\/12\/1-Parchment-in-a-box-2-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of parchment in a box\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" longdesc=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetforyou.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog?longdesc=192&amp;referrer=271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2016\/12\/1-Parchment-in-a-box-2-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/files\/2016\/12\/1-Parchment-in-a-box-2-400x225-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parchment in an archival box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Boxes also help to maintain a stable micro-climate for the documents contained within, even if the external conditions fluctuate.\u00a0<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It won&#8217;t surprise you that Dorset History Centre contains a LOT of boxes. Our environmentally controlled repositories have a capacity of around 49,000 archive boxes \u2013 not including oversize items. The boxes are made from materials that won&#8217;t have any negative effects on the unique items they contain.\u00a0\u00a0 Collections arrive with us in various states&hellip; <span class=\"kuorinka-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/2018\/02\/06\/archive-a-z-b-is-for-boxes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Archive A-Z: B is for boxes<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[41,42],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk\/dorset-history-centre-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}