Report: “Czech National Library Scrambles to Save Thousands of Books At Risk of Decay”
Over 90 percent of books in the Czech National Library printed after the year 1800 are threatened with destruction caused by acid, which has been forming in the paper over the years.
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On Wednesday, 3,800 volumes from Prague’s Klementinum, which translates into over 2.2 tonnes of paper, were loaded on a truck and shipped to a special chemical treatment facility in Germany, which will neutralize acids in the paper so as to prevent it from disintegrating. The Czech Ministry of Culture has earmarked six million crowns [approx. $240,000/USD] for the project.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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