Charles Davis sends us
this story from the Detroit News about Peru’s State Library’s preservation troubles:
These volumes are rarely brought out for display at Peru’s once-grand National Library, where the ravages of humidity, auto exhaust and decay are taking a heavy toll in one of the world’s most important repositories of papers from the Spanish colonial era.
Librarians are hampered with an inadequate arsenal — aging vacuum cleaners, a couple of household air purifiers, soft-bristle brushes. Gonzales, one of the library’s chief researchers, longs for specialized high-tech equipment and climate control systems to halt the collection’s deterioration.
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