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Q.

I have a preservation question. Someone called me who had water damage to his apartment while he was away and the jackets on his LPs began to mold and mildew. (Fortunately the LPs are not moldy, he says.) He wants to try to salvage what jackets (and box sets) he can and asked for advice. Do you know of a site with this kind of handy information? Submitted: 9/12/02

A.

I did a search on google for "book preservation mold" and got a number of sites. Some which might be useful are

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/cataloging/pres/mold.html

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/bytopic/genpub/

Another useful site: Procedures for Salvage of Water Damaged Library Materials

 

Jeanette L. Casey
Acting Head Music Librarian
Northwestern University

David Farneth
Head, Institutional Archives and Records Management
Research Library
The Getty Research Institute

Suzanne Flandreau
Librarian and Archivist
Center for Black Music Research, Columbia College

David Seubert
Curator, Davidson Library Performing Arts Collection
University of California, Santa Barbara

Judy Tsou
Head, Music Library
Lecturer, School of Music
University of Washington

Don Widmer
Library Director, Archivist
VanderCook College of Music