Rare Book Dust Rare book and manuscript collections are stored in environmentally controlled rooms with dedicated HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning) systems; these systems maintain ideal temperature and relative humidity conditions in the room in order to help preserve the objects housed within. This is an image of dust/debris sampled from the ductwork of an HVAC system serving just such a room. The peculiar colors and odd shaped larger chunks indicate something is amiss somewhere in the system...
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12022-03-22T19:39:52+00:00KSL Exhibitsad59ae249b808d7092ad4d02c088e1a23747e128Konstantin S. Leskov, Celestial ConceptionKSL Exhibits2plain2022-03-22T20:16:02+00:00KSL Exhibitsad59ae249b808d7092ad4d02c088e1a23747e128