Margaret spent twenty-five years behind the counter of a town clerk’s office and a county recorder’s vault in northern New England – land records, vital records, a flood or two and every budget meeting in between. She writes about running a records office that will still make sense to whoever inherits it.
A practical checklist for monitoring temperature and humidity in a records vault, with logger placement, dehumidifier advice and how to read the logger graph.
Phasing a records preservation program over a decade: condition survey, priority scoring, annual tranches, recording-fee funds, grants and board reports.
An hour-by-hour checklist for the first 48 hours after water reaches records: safety, insurer calls, drying the room, triage, interleaving, freezing, mold.
