February 2, 2007
Crustacean Innovation
If you want something done right in Maine, call a lobsterman. At least that's what archivists at Bowdoin College say ever since they started using shelves made of lobster-trap material to store old drawings.
Around the world, librarians and archivists are always on the lookout for new ways to protect old documents. Bowdoin's archivist, Richard Lindemann, needed a rack for old rolled-up maps and blueprints of the college. It couldn't be too acidic for the maps or too alkaline for the
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