Crustacean Innovation

By ERIK VANCE

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...