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Re: water damaged journal



Try a humidity chamber - this will redampen the pages and thereby loosen
them so that the pages may be pried apart without damaging them.  Then,
you'll need some blotter paper to interleave with the pages so that they dry
appropriately and without sticking together again.  And, something weighty,
like covered bricks, to flatten the pages and reduce some of the warp.

Good luck.

If you need more specific instructions, contact me off list.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nancy Freeman" <Nancy.A.Freeman@USDA.GOV>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 12:19 PM
Subject: water damaged journal


> All,
>
> I have a question regarding water damage and salvage operations for a
paper
> item.  A biologist here has a Belgian Journal of Zoology that
unfortunately got
> very wet.  When the journal dried most of the pages stuck together,
particularly
> toward the binding.  I can open the journal but only about three quarters
of the
> way.  The paper is glossy and it looks as if trying to pry apart the pages
will
> just tear them all.  Is there any way to get the pages unstuck?  This is
not a
> tremendously valuable item but took some time to come by and the biologist
> really needs some of the articles.  I wanted to use the collective wisdom
of the
> list to see if there's a solution for this or if I need to tell him to
just
> start hunting for another journal!
>
> Many thanks,
> Nancy Freeman, Records Manager/Archivist
> National Wildlife Research Center
> 4101 LaPorte Ave.
> Fort Collins, CO  80521
> (970) 266-6023
>
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