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Subject:        Re: Dust/Residue on Maps
Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:40:19 -0400
From:   Michael J Buscher <[log in to unmask]>
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CC:     Diane Schug-O'Neill <[log in to unmask]>, John R Hebert <[log in to unmask]>




Jenny,
   We have noticed that the materials from India and Pakistan seem to have a musty smell when we unpack them and they also seem dusty. The smell usually goes away after a day or two. In the twenty some years I have been involved LC acquisitions this has always been the case. We had our conservation office check the materials a few years ago and they found no fungui or spores.

Mike Buscher
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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