Giving Blueday: An Archival Box-Making Machine
| When | Wednesday, March 19, 2025 from 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM |
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| Where | Online: Donate now |
| Event type | Other |
Help our Preservation Services team reduce their time making boxes so they can spend more time preserving our rare and historic materials. We're on a mission to raise $30,000 for an archival box-making machine.
Archival boxes, which are currently custom made at the library or outsourced, provide protection for thousands of fragile and vulnerable materials. Creating them by hand takes time, and archival boxes ordered from outside vendors can take 1-3 months to arrive, which keeps materials out of circulation.
The Gunnar AiOX Box-Making Machine streamlines the creation of archival boxes in-house. It shortens the box-making process from over an hour to mere minutes, creates less wastage, and provides a more durable final product, ensuring safe storage for years to come.
Find out more, and contribute to the cause!
And, library enthusiast and advocate Jennifer Poteat will double your impact by matching up to $10,000 in contributions!
Giving Blueday is the University of Michigan's annual day of giving, when the global community comes together to support causes across campus.
Kyle Clark, conservation technician, manually creating custom boxes in the Conservation Lab.
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Katrina Klaphake · klaphake@umich.edu
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