Oh No!!

We have had standing water in our collections 5 times in 3 years until the issue was fixed. If the water did not touch the bottom drawers you should be fine. BUT you must remove all the map drawers from the bottom cases so the water can be vacuumed out and the get lots of air circulation.  Important to do this NOW!  Im have lots more to say. I’ll PM you my cell phone. I’m happy to talk any time. Time is of the essence so call me ASAP.
Heather Ross
Map Specialist
Penn State

From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Cheyenne Stradinger <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 2:32:44 PM
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Subject: Flood in our map library
 
Good afternoon,

On Monday, the area where many of our map cases are located was flooded. I'm wondering if any of you all have dealt with this and what best options are when dealing with wastewater exposure to the map cases. The water was clearish, but contaminated and went about an inch high. We now have to move these exposed map cases (potentially 4 to 5 cases high and each case has 4 drawers) and will need to be moved to sterilize underneath.

Help!

Cheyenne Stradinger

Cheyenne Stradinger, MLIS

Library Information Specialist 3 / Map and Geographic Information Center (MAGIC) Librarian

Centennial Science & Engineering Library

University of New Mexico

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