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This will be highly dependent on the value of the material and extent of damage including severity of deposits. Often, reformatting through preservation photocopy or digital scan and/or printing access copies will be recommended in favor of discarding the affected original if appropriate, similar to our procedures for extremely moldy material. If the original must be kept, I have recommended encapsulation (with the staff wearing PPE & following appropriate cleanup procedures on the equipment). I have not gone so far as to recommend gamma or ozone treatment, as both also have a significant aging effect on paper, and the stains would remain offputting. An image of an irreplaceable object with a comment about its handling is posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/siarchives/8075169441/in/set-72157631740814748 a gallery set which accompanied last year’s Halloween Horrors post. http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/welcome-gallery-horrors-enter-if-you-dare Recommended reading includes an excellent contribution on hantavirus by Jo Ann Martinez-Kilgore in Archives Conservators Discussion Group 2005: Hazardous Holdings<http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/sg/bpg/annual/v24/bp24-13.pdf>. Nora Lockshin, Paper Conservator Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation<http://siarchives.si.edu/services/conservation> Smithsonian Institution Archives<http://siarchives.si.edu/> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> / 202.633.5913 / 5927 fax / Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507 Blog<http://siarchives.si.edu/blog/tag/conservation> ▪ Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Smithsonian-Center-for-Archives-Conservation/52463409203> ▪ YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/user/SIArchives> ▪ Flickr Commons<http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithsonian> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sharlane Gubkin Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 12:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] MOUSE DROPPINGS ON ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- I do not know the proper way to disinfect paper documents that have been contaminated by mouse droppings. If they are sprayed or wiped with a bleach solution or other disinfectant it will adversely affect the paper. How are paper and books safely disinfected so they can be handled by people in the future as well as sustain no damage from the treatment itself? Thanks for your help! [https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2/images/cleardot.gif] -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]> with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> or [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
