Here are some preventive tips in order to prevent damage to your paper, your books and to your microfilm or tips on document drying your documents. For one of the most daunting tasks faced by your record managers is recovering your wet documents. And apply document drying to it. There are damages which could ruin your precious documents such fire suppression, floods, rain, sprinkler pipe breaks and other disasters that could leave your paper records, your microfilm and your microfiche soaked with water or damage by fire or smoke. 100 percent recovery is possible if you only respond quickly about it and immediately apply document drying procedures. One of the basic strategies is to keep your photographic media from drying and as well blocking, and to freeze your paper documents through a document dying process called document freeze drying to prevent further damage on it. For which is the only way to save gloss your finished paper. The following are the steps you should or you can follow for recovery of your papers through document drying.



1. Seal your film. Your photographic media, that is, your microfilm, your microfiche and your x-ray film, should be your first priority to recover. You should prepare a list, so the contents can be tracked and then box and seal them to prevent them from drying. Refrigerating your paper at 351/4 - 401/4 F if possible.

2. Freeze your paper. As long as paper is wet, puckering, swelling, ink smearing and blocking will occurs. Pack these documents in your boxes with plastic liners, palletize, and freeze and make inventory on them. Once your damaged papers frozen, the damage will cease and the loss is in a stasis until restoration of them can be accomplished will bring back them into shape.

3. Separate your vellum and your leather bound documents. Your vellum and leather are derived from an animal skin and you should be carefully separate them from the rest of your documents. You should do document drying slowly and in a controlled fashion or way. Your documents should not be heated during the freeze dry process or document drying process.

4. Reprocess your microforms. As I stated above, the emulsion layer on your film will stick to a contiguous substrate if you allowed it to dry, thus resulting in tearing and loss of your data if you subsequently attempt to separate your film. Restoration of your films involves machine reprocessing of your wet microfilm and a manual processing of fiche and your other photographic film. Your film may also be frozen for an indefinite storage without further damage on it. For restoration of your film, your film must then be thawed and wet processed for its restoration.

5. Freeze dry your frozen paper documents. The next trick is to document dry or document drying your paper without exposing your documents to the liquid phase. You can accomplished this by forcing sublimation, that is, solid-state to vapor-state drying, in a freeze dry chamber or document drying chamber with sufficient vacuum.