id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crln-24009	Smith, Richard D.	Mass deacidification: The Wei T’o understanding	2020	11	.pdf	application/pdf	7748	246	52	The author is a lecturer in Conservation of Library Materials at the G raduate Library School of the University of Chicago, a registered profes­ sional engineer (State of Ohio), and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemistry, the American In ­ stitute for Conservation, and the International In ­ stitute for Conservation. ervation: The Wei T’o W ay,” C&RL News, De­ cember 1984, and the follow-up articles appearing in the January and March 1985 issues; in Ron Che- pesiuk’s interview, “On Assignment: Preservation: The Wei T ’o W ay,” Wilson Library Bulletin (June 1986); and in “Answers to Frequent Questions Re­ garding the Wei T’o Nonaqueous Book Deacidifi­ cation System,” available from Wei T’o® Associ­ ates.1 The condition of library collections All librarians know th at the condition of books in research library collections is extremely poor. If for com putational convenience we say the Li­ brary of Congress holds 13,000,000 books, and each book has a replacement cost of $100, the Li­ brary of Congress book collection has a cash value of $1,300,000,000.	cache/crln-24009.pdf	txt/crln-24009.txt