Bob Cox sent along This Story on the Wilmington Institute Free Library\’s basement.
They have issues of Time dating from 1924 and Scientific American from 1846 and a full 20-volume original set of The North American Indian. They just don\’t have the money to properly maintain the archives.
\”Attics and basements are the worst places to keep your materials,\” Dimunation said. \”When you have extended spikes in either temperature or humidity, it subjects the paper and bindings to expansion and contraction. Those are the extremes we try to avoid when we store books in a rare book vault.\”
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