You beat me to the punch, Kathleen. Our Atlante Tematico d'Italia made an
awful mess that did not clean up easily.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 9:29 AM Weessies, Kathleen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Ewww, yes, our feels like someone spilled kool-aid all over it.  And
> cleaning it likely won’t solve the problem if the material is continuing to
> degrade.  It looks like a regular hardcover book.
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> I had a related problem with the 4-volume Atlante tematico d'Italia, *http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b2957713~S39a
> <http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b2957713~S39a>*
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> In that case, the binding material seems to be degrading down to a thick
> black sticky tar.  We had each volume boxed.
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> Kathleen Weessies
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> Social Sciences Coordinator; Head, Map Library
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> Michigan State University
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> 517-884-0849
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> *From:* Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]> *On Behalf
> Of *Kathy Stroud
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 3, 2019 4:39 PM
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Atlas cartograìfico del Reino de Chile, siglos XVII-XIX
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> All,
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>
> Our student working in the stacks discovered that our copy of Atlas
> cartograìfico del Reino de Chile, siglos XVII-XIX (
> https://UOLibraries.on.worldcat.org/oclc/9022371
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__UOLibraries.on.worldcat.org_oclc_9022371&d=DwMFAA&c=nE__W8dFE-shTxStwXtp0A&r=77-47ZJQbukZ-e0xX_dd1Q&m=rGrAYfceykomdoVf3rmy0c9UcLn5XmjgJfAjdldL6gI&s=7MJcSqUrfDNa1lk_00Fv1YOAZHJzRxoY9D55F2jkJbA&e=>)
> is extremely sticky.  I suspect that whatever faux leather material it was
> bound with is degrading.  Has anyone else encountered this situation?
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> We are having our copy rebound.
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> Thanks,
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>
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> Kathy Stroud
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> *David and Nancy Petrone* Map/GIS Librarian Knight Library
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> 1299 University of Oregon
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> methodology used to collect and parse that data, the people doing that
> work, the choices made in terms of visualization and the software used to
> make them.”
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