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A wet start to 2011

The New Year has been and gone and this constant rain has become a torrential disaster in many areas of Australia. We have been following the flood hashtags on Twitter, and wondering, as many of you are, how we can be of help.

Over on our website we have begun a list of useful resources under the broad heading Dealing With Wet Records which covers topics such as handling wet records, salvaging water damaged materials, and (more generally) disastersĀ and records.

The list will be updated.

Mould left unchecked or poorly dealt with can devastate collections leaving them close to useless

Category: Preservation