Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting a battle to control the heatand humidity and to keep air circulating," saidMeredith, adding that other portions of theTreasure Room collection may still have to bemoved...
...Treasure Room, built in 1948, houses more than 1000 of the Law Library's rarest books in three stories of stacks, including a number of European law books printed before 1601. Warrington said most of the damaged books date to the 16th and 17th centuries...
...guess for some reason something was still on, and it was getting the messagethat we needed more humidity," said Mary Person,Treasure Room supervisor said...
According to Person, librarians reacted quicklyto the disaster, forming a "bucket brigade" tomove books from the top stacks to tables in theLangdell Reading Room. They spent the afternoon"interleaving" the books with paper towels andmoving them to a climate-controlled room to dryout, Warrington said...
Meredith said that because all the climatesystems in the stacks have been shut down, heatand humidity may endanger the remaining books inthe Treasure Room...