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As the owner or manager of an archives or records center, you can hope that you and your colleagues never have to experience an emergency situation. But all the hoping in the world won’t prevent flooding, fires, and other emergency scenarios from occurring. That’s why it’s essential that archivists have emergency plans in place. Polygon and the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) have teamed up to create a series of emergency preparedness documents that will give your organization the information it needs to put together a plan for when an emergency scenario damages your important documents.

Harvard University attracts some of the brightest minds from all over the world. With those bright minds come world-class facilities, incredible research projects, and priceless collections. At the end of the 19th century, the Harvard College Observatory in Cambridge started to receive glass photographic plates taken by the university’s telescopes in Massachusetts, California, Peru, and South Africa. The collection of plates allowed for astronomists to measure the variability and colors of stars over the full sky for the first time. The project continued until 1992, resulting in a collection that consists of more than half a million images.

When wet or moldy books, papers, and files are damaged, they can be saved. If you are recovering from property damage and don’t know what to do with damaged papers or books, Polygon can help. As one of the country’s longest-serving providers for document recovery, Polygon has both the equipment and experienced staff to handle even the most severely damaged paper product. Moldy books, water-soaked files, photographs, or medical records, all of these items can be salvaged.

Paper documents are still an important part of archiving, and the pros at Polygon Document Recovery Systems believe this will always be true.

Press release Stockholm, August 27, 2019 Polygon acquires AMRestore in US