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Subject:        RE: Dust/Residue on Maps
Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:14:27 -0400
From:   Brownell,Barbara <[log in to unmask]>
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Several years ago, I did some research on this because I handle books
from South Asia and was also concerned about pesticide residue. This is
the only NIOSH report I found, but it only covers books.
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/1994-0104-2458.pdf

I also found some questions on Conservation OnLine
(http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/), but no answers.

I hope this helps.

Barbara Brownell
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Dust/Residue on Maps
Date:   Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:04:46 -0500
From:   Jenny Marie Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi.

I was wondering if anyone is taking special precautions with the maps
that they receive through the Library of Congress Cooperative
Acquisitions Program, especially those maps of India and Pakistan.

The items always feel dirty and dusty when we unpack them ....  and the
central acquisitions unit here is starting to raise alarms about
residues left by fumigation on materials acquired from some parts of
Asia.

Does anyone know why these maps feel the way that they do?  What might
be on them?

Thanks!

Jenny Marie Johnson
Map and Geography Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign