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Floods, fires, and humidity: How climate change affects book preservation

Por: The Boston Globe Nation January 08, 2023

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At Tulane University, 1.5 million books and manuscripts were drenched when Hurricane Katrina swept through Louisiana in 2005. In 2018, UCLA was in talks to receive a donor’s collection when it was destroyed in the Woolsey fire. And the next year, the Getty fire sent up thick, black plumes of smoke that threatened to filter into UCLA’s libraries and damage the fragile materials housed inside.“We were lucky” that day, recalled Chela... + full article



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