Like many other museums, the GCHS Museum gets inundated with countless catalogs from Gaylord, Demco, Brodart, etc. While larger museums and historical sites can afford to dish out a healthy chunk of change for these state of the art archival materials, however, we at the museum cannot so we have found several innovative and creative ideas to preserve our collections and keep our spending down.
Our head intern has been working on an archival project where in she is scanning, documenting and disassembling photo albums and boxes of old pictures at the museum. After using all of the archival 6 pocket pages her project was at a standstill. Until, I remembered that the Mylar sheets for sports cards were similar to those that Gaylord, Demco and Brodart sells. All of the items feature top-loading, heavyweight pages that hold three 4" x 6" items each. The polypropylene pages are PVC- and acid-free and feature UV protection and strong welds. So, let's break it down to numbers (makes it easier to see how funky it can be, yo!):
For a 100 pack of Mylar Album Pages that hold Six 4 x 6 Prints:
Gaylord: $59.90 (priced at $29.95 per 50 sheets)
Demco: $59.98 (priced at $29.99 per 50 sheets)
Brodart: $43.96 (their price is $10.99 per 25 sheets)
Amazon.com : $11.30 ( a box of 100 sheets)
Though the costs of multiple purchase decreases if you buy more (5, 10, 20 packs, etc) but none can compete with the price of the same item targeted for a less endowed or perhaps less gluttonous audience. It seems surreal that many places that need these materials are bamboozled into believing that these other items are not of the same quality or some other pretentious blather. The fact is: THESE ARE THE SAME ITEMS.
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