Re: LM_NET Digest - 30 Sep 2000 - Special issue (#2000-1106)

[Gloria Knipp <dhr000@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>]

At 09:34 PM 9/30/00 -0400, you wrote:

>
>Date:    Fri, 29 Sep 2000 23:48:50 EDT
>From:    Marylu Perchak <mlu2526@HOTMAIL.COM>
>Subject: Help!  There is mold in my library.
>
>Hello!
>
>     I am a library student taking my first course.  One of my assignments
>is to post something on a LISTSERV.  Presently, I am also, a LTS in a school
>media center.  Last week mold was discovered in the library and elsewhere in
>my school.  Right now the library is closed while the mold is being
>analyzed.  My questions are:  "What will happen to the books if the mold has
>penetrated the books?  Is there anyway to salvage the collection?"


I came back to school one fall to find most of the books in a small library
growing green stuff.  Enlisted by mother - retired from the same system -
and we washed all the books using a sponge dipped in Clorox water. We wrung
out most of the water so the sponges were not soppy.  We saved virtually all
of the collection - set them out kind of open all along the bleachers in the
gym to dry.  Not a fun day.  I only recall having to throw out a couple of
books that had warped as well as molded.

Mold only grew on the Bound To Stay Bound Books -- something about the
glue/covers.  Most of that library was BTSB.  After that I switched to
another prebound company.

Did not have the problem again -- made the janitors leave the window cracked
open during summers for air circulation.  We also ran a dehumidifier for
several months.

Gloria




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Gloria Knipp                                    Phone:  660-433-5528
High School Librarian/Technology Coordinator    Fax:  660-433-2419
305 E. Highway 50                               e-mail: dhr000@mail.connect.more.net
Tipton MO  65081

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