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1. Woolf's New Home - Preservation Underground

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2023/09/22/woolfs-new-home/

   We have been carefully looking at the environmental conditions inside each of the exhibit galleries for a long time, so we have a good (...)

2. Preservation Week: 10 Tips For Your Collections (pt. 3) - Preservation Underground

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2010/05/13/preservation-week-10-tips-for-your-collections-pt-3/

   Food stains can attract hungry insects and high humidity can accelerate decay and attract mold. If you display textiles, but especially (...)

3. The "Disaster Wiggle" Redux - Preservation Underground

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2022/01/28/the-disaster-wiggle-redux/

   We use diffuser panels as a base in humidity chambers because they are sturdy, but have holes in them that allow moist air to move (...)

4. Hot Property - Preservation Underground

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2023/03/10/hot-property/

   Aniline prints fade quickly with exposure to light and are sensitive to heat, humidity, alkalinity, and a number of solvents including (...)

5. When Items Keep Getting Bigger - Preservation Underground

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2024/06/06/bigger-collections/

   My goal for the enclosure design was to protect all the different parts of the document, and also to help hold it flat should there be any (...)

6. Preservation Underground - Page 10 of 59 - Duke University Libraries Preservation

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/page/10/

   For many years now we have used Onset HOBO MX1101 dataloggers to monitor temperature and humidity conditions over long periods of time. (...)

7. British Library Grant Helps Duke Preserve Tibetan Manuscripts - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2013/06/17/british-library-grant-helps-duke-preserve-tibetan-manuscripts/

   “They are currently housed in a building that is neither air-conditioned nor humidity-controlled. Having so many unique materials in (...)

8. For Library Staff, Remote Work Is a Booklover’s Paradise - Duke University Libraries Blogs

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2022/04/01/for-library-staff-remote-work-is-a-booklovers-paradise/

   “With its low temperatures, low humidity, and clean air, Mauna Kea has some of the best environmental conditions anywhere on earth for (...)

9. Preservation Underground - Page 17 of 58 - Duke University Libraries Preservation

   https://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/page/17/

   Using a vapor chamber we created a high humidity environment to soften the parchment and ease out some of those wrinkles.

10. A Day in the Life of the Libraries - Duke University Libraries Magazine

    https://blogs.library.duke.edu/magazine/2013/06/18/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-libraries/

    The air inside is kept at a constant 50 degrees Fahrenheit with 30 percent humidity, ideal conditions for preserving books and paper.