Features

Climate Notebook® version 3.1.3 for Windows is the first comprehensive tool of its kind for organizing, tracking, and analyzing data collected from storage and display spaces in cultural institutions.

The program's special metrics allow users to compare various storage environments in terms of preservation quality and to analyze an environment with relation to the three major types of deterioration—chemical, mechanical, and biological. Climate Notebook also provides analysis specific to the objects in a collection and shows the effects of environmental conditions on different materials.

Climate Notebook natively supports data from the original Preservation Environment Monitor® and the new PEM2. It can also import data from other sources, including ACR, Spectrum, Hobo®, Trak-R, Pinnacle, Dickson, and Rotronic data loggers, and Microsoft® Excel database files. Version 3.1.2 includes the DewPoint Calculator, Stored Alive (an interactive program), a detailed user manual and help file, and a downloadable workbook, Step-by-Step: Achieving a Preservation Environment for Collections.

Important! Using a PEM2 with Climate Notebook v3.1: If you have an older version of Climate Notebook (version 3.1 or 3.1.1), it does not support PEM2 data files. You can enable your Climate Notebook software to accept PEM2 data with a free update from IPI. Note: If you have purchased Climate Notebook after 4/15/08, the upgrade is not necessary. PEM2 data is supported with that version of Climate Notebook. The update will require you to replace the current Climate Notebook executable file (the cnb.exe file in your Climate Notebook folder) with a new cnb.exe, which is available for download here: (http://www.climatenotebook.org/cnb.exe). Follow the detailed instructions included in the Upgrading Climate Notebook document. Once you have updated your Climate Notebook software, Climate Notebook will include the PEM2 as a data logger choice when importing data. PEM2 data can be imported using the same steps as when importing data from any other logger.

Climate Notebook has been field-tested in more than 200 cultural institutions and is in use in many more, in the U.S. and elsewhere.

• Discover hidden trends and opportunities for improvement. Climate Notebook organizes environmental data into a “notebook” that you create and name for each storage location.
  
  
• Explore information in views designed to meet the different needs of professional staff in your institution. Choose Collections Manager’s View, Engineer’s View, or Conservator’s View.
  
  
• Compare data from several locations in the same window using the Compare Notebooks view. Select any or all of your monitored environments and the time frame you want to view.
  
  
• Download outdoor data from the web and compare indoor and outdoor temperatures, RH, and dew point.
  
  
• Promote information-sharing among collection and preservation staff, building engineers, and administrators. Create detailed reports and graphs of environmental conditions from your data.
  
  
• Alert collection staff to dangerous conditions. Create awareness of conditions that could cause mold to grow, lead to physical damage, promote rapid material decay, or waste HVAC dollars.
  
  
• Learn about preservation of collections in Material Records. Each record contains a description of a particular material, its response to the environment, storage condition recommendations, alerts, and limits.