September 16, 2005
Mold and Muck Threaten Library Collections
In a natural disaster, water is typically the greatest threat to anything made of paper, celluloid, or magnetic tape -- the raw materials of information in a library. And in parts of Louisiana and Mississippi, water has conquered all.
Librarians around the country have been watching television-news footage of rising floodwaters, wondering and worrying.
Fleming Thomas, library director at Northwestern State University, in Natchitoches, La., says he is deeply concerned about
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