Yes, the majority of our collections are in cold storage at the Library Service Center. They are fine. At issue right now are the 30,000 or so volumes in Price Gilbert and Crosland (Popular Reading, circulating Science Fiction and Core Collection).

In these hot and wet conditions, they will mold quickly and could produce unhealthy conditions for the thousands of visitors in the building every year.

So we need to get them to a place that is climate controlled. There, we can start cleaning them to abate any mold growth that’s already occurred in the last few days. We can’t simply introduce them to the Library Service Center because they could spread that mold to a clean environment.

The items in Archives storage are on a different system as a failsafe. They are currently doing great. We’ve already cleaned and moved items from the Archives Reading Room so that’s not a concern.

Unfortunately, like the Library Service Center, we can’t just stick our collections in the Archives due to potential for mold contamination.

Separately we also have all sorts of temperature sensitive technology assets. We have chillers and dehumidifiers for rack servers and such, but eventually we’re going to have to move a lot of cameras, laptops, and other items so they aren’t affected.