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Re: damp papers



When a local museum's archives was flooded, we "wallpapered" the floor of
an adjacent cultural hall as well as every long table we could find.
Because there was a large volumn of records, we were able to store some
boxes in the freezer of a local meet market until we were able to get to
them.

If your papers are only damp and not wet, it should only take a few hours
for them to dry out.  If you have volunteers helping you (we did!) make
sure that they understand to lay all the papers out in a specific order (we
did it left to right starting over on the right for the next row) so that
you or they can pick them up again in the correct order.

Hope this is of help to you.

Robin Kennedy
Project Archivist
Northern Michigan University
1401 Presque Isle  114 LRC
Marquette, MI 49855
At 04:52 PM 1/24/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>A radiator leaked on some records in storage.  The office in charge of the
>records say they are not vital and from what I can see, would probably not
>end up in the archives.  I am more afraid of the possibility of mold and
>mildew.  The boxes got wet, the papers inside got "dampish" (as if they had
>sat in the humidification box).  The contents have been transferred to new
>boxes. What more should we be doing?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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