National Archives of Australia, FAQ How do I protect and handle optical disks?
Council on Library and Information Resources Care and Handling of CDs and DVDs: A Guide for Librarians and Archivists Return to questions I have just inherited a number of old letters and certificates that have sticky brown stains along their fold lines. They look like they may be from old repairs, is it OK to use another adhesive tape to fix these repairs? Although it is very difficult to determine the exact cause of the damage or identify what has been used previously without seeing the item, it is likely that the old repair was carried out using sticky tape and this is what has caused the sticky brown stains. Adhesive tapes, pressure sensitive tapes or sticky tapes as theyre so commonly known have been around commercially since the 1920s and have caused at times irreversible damage to important historical documents. Specialist conservation treatment is needed to remove the sticky tape. Useful web links providing information on problems associated with sticky tapes include: The Austr
