This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to everyone for your helpful suggestions and for the information on the life-cycle of the carpet beetle! I think I will go ahead and freeze the felt-lined boxes and afterwards remove the felt and reline them with acid free paper/board as suggested. I am also ordering some Ageless O2 scavengers and barrier film material from Keep Safe and will seal the books themselves in these. I like the idea about the sealed plastic tub with the sticky traps as well.
I really want to let everyone know that I did speak to Jerry at Keep Safe today and there must have been some gliche on my side involving my previous attempts to contact him, he had no record of my contact attempts. He gave me wonderful information and advise. I apologize for posting anything at all negative, wasn't thinking, as I have always noticed his helpful advice to others on this list and elsewhere and his products also sound really good! Sorry about that! Best, Sharlane oOn Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Sharlane Gubkin <[email protected]> wrote: > We received a set of valuable vellum-bound books as a gift in our library > that will be housed in Special Collections. The handmade boxes for each > book are lined with wool felt. During our routine check of incoming gift > items, we noticed some dead larvae of carpet beetles. While nothing was > found alive, and I have seen no new frass on the cart where they are now > stored, I was thinking of freezing them to be safe since we have access to > a local freezer at the Natural history Museum, but do not know if this is > OK for vellum. The books are not wet. I contacted Jerry Schiner from > Keepsafe about anoxic treatment many times but never hear back! Is it safe > to just vacuum the books? > Any advise would be appreciated. > Thanks! > Sharlane Gubkin > > -- > Sharlane Gubkin > Preservation Officer > Kelvin Smith Library > Case Western Reserve University > 11055 Euclid Avenue > Cleveland, OH 44106-7151 > (216) 368-3465 > -- Sharlane Gubkin Preservation Officer Kelvin Smith Library Case Western Reserve University 11055 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106-7151 (216) 368-3465 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to [email protected] with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected]
