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