Putting It Into Practice

Monitoring the Environment

You have learned about "best practices" for control of temperature, relative humidity, pollutants, and light in collections storage—but how do you actually achieve these goals? Maintaining the recommended values can be difficult, even in a new building that has been designed and constructed for the purpose of storing collections with long-term value.

In this section you will learn how to monitor the environmental conditions in your building, and how to begin evaluating that data to determine which areas of your building are best for storing collections.