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Climate Notebook® is IPI's Windows-based environmental analysis software lets you organize, track, visualize, analyze, and report on environmental data gathered from a variety of loggers. Climate Notebook was designed by preservation professionals specifically for use in archives, libraries, and museums. The software runs on Windows 98, NT, 2000 or XP. Climate Notebook is not designed to run as a distributed application over a network; it must be installed on the computer you are using. Designed to work with the Preservation Envirionment Monitor® (PEM®), Climate Notebook can also import data from a variety of sources including ACR®, Spectrum®, Hobo®, Trak-R®, and Rotronic® devices and MS Excel files. Data also may be entered manually. Object-specific analysis explains and documents how different materials are affected by environmental conditions and recommends improvements.

Metrics illustrate each major type of deterioration — chemical, mechanical, and biological. A range of graphs and reports are easily produced. The software package includes the newly developed DewPoint Calculator, the Stored Alive interactive storage game, a detailed user's manual and help file, and a downloadable workbook, Step-by-Step: Achieving a Preservation Environment for Collections. $500 for one installation, $125 for each additional site license. Ongoing technical support included.

About IPI

The Image Permanence Institute (IPI) is a university-based, nonprofit research laboratory devoted to scientific research in the preservation of visual and other forms of recorded information. It is the world's largest independent laboratory with this specific scope. IPI was founded in 1985 through the combined efforts and sponsorship of the Rochester Insitute of Technology and the Society for Imaging Science and Technology. Funding for IPI's preservation research and outreach efforts has come mainly from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. IPI is a provider of information, consulting services, practical tools, and preservation technology for libraries, archives, and museum collections worldwide.