This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net 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 imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
