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Subject: RE: There's a Fungus Among Us!
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:42:33 -0500
From: Hadden, Robert L ERDC-TEC-VA <[log in to unmask]>
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With all the anecdotal accounts given about maps received with musty
odors, this subject looks like a good article/book/thesis to investigate,
research and write. There appears to be a hole in the literature about
contamination of materials, and it needs to be plugged. Someone who needs a
subject for thesis, or needs to publish in the library literature, should
work on this problem. Also, it appears to be yet another item in which
librarians re-invent the wheel at each library, rather than sharing their
expertise.
Lee
R. Lee Hadden
Geospatial Information Library (Map Library))
Topographic Engineering Center
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"Curiosity is not a nice virtue- and it never leads to innocence." -Donna
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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:04:32 -0500
From: Maps-L Moderator for Barbara Brownell <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Dust/Residue on Maps
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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
Metadata Contract Services
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Subject: Dust/Residue on Maps
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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
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