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PRESERVATION <br /> OVERVIEW <br /> WHY RECORDS PRESERVATION? ,Y, �'jYy <br /> Joseph J. Marotti Company can assist our existing as well as future <br /> customers in preserving the past for the future with Records Preservation <br /> Services. <br /> • In the recent past, the need for the preservation of America's heritage on <br /> paper has become increasingly apparent. Americans are more aware of the <br /> precarious state of the written history of towns, cities, states and the nation <br /> itself. As awareness has grown, so has the technology which can stabilize <br /> and preserve the paper on which these unique documents are written. <br /> Beginning around 1850, manufacturers began changing the content of <br /> paper, adding groundwood pulp, alum-rosin sizing, residual bleaching <br /> chemicals, inks, and sulfur dioxide. The result was paper with a high acid <br /> content that breaks down the paper fiber through a process known as acid <br /> hydrolysis. The molecular links begin to break, and the paper fibers <br /> become shorter and weaker. Add years of handling and less than ideal <br /> storage conditions to the heat and light blast from modern day copiers, and <br /> all the ingredients are present for valuable documents and books to <br /> deteriorate rapidly. <br /> Knowing that there is no better record than the original, and that many <br /> public officials, archivists and records managers are concerned about the <br /> continued life span of irreplaceable documents, Joseph J. Marotti Company <br /> • offers Records Preservation Services, which include techniques which are <br /> universally accepted and practiced by conservators worldwide. <br />