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Title: FRASSBUSTERS
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FRASSBUSTERS!
- LIS 615 Preservation Plan
- April 5, 2003
- Jennifer Beardsley
- Carrie Vance
- Gayle Hirohata Goto
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Plan Overview
- Usual Suspects
- Signs of Destruction
- Aftermath
- Prevention
- Survey
- Control
- Cleaning
- Treatment
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The Usual Suspects
- Hideout
- Dark
- Small
- Seldom Disturbed
- Mug Shots
- 6 million species
- more than 70 different species enemies of paper
- 4 most common in Hawaii Libraries
- Crimes of Passion
- Not only eating
- Tunneling
- Nesting
- Bodily Secretions
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Book Beetle alias Book Worm
- Most prevalent in Hamilton Library
- Lays eggs in books
- Set Forth and Multiply
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Book Beetle (cont.)
- Damage
- Round exit holes
- Turns text of book into confetti
- Frass
- Fine granular droppings
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Cockroaches
- Various species
- Large, strong chewing mouthparts
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Cockroaches (cont.)
- Damage
- Easily destroy paper and bookbindings
- Ragged appearance of books
- Frass
- Brown droppings permanently stain paper and
bookbindings
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Silverfish
- Soft mouth parts so they gum the surface of books
- Eat book covers, starch in binding paste
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Silverfish (cont.)
- Damage
- Lace-like irregular appearance
- Threadbare trails
- Frass
- Fine black pellet like
- Similar to mouse droppings but smaller
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Termites
- Not common in the library
- Usually come in with wooden bookshelves and other
wood pieces, furniture - Devour textblock and binding
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Termites (cont.)
- Damage
- Turn text into confetti
- Destroy bindings
- Frass
- Granular sand-like droppings
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Prevention
- Survey
- Control
- Cleaning
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Survey Questions
- Have there been pest problems in the past?
- What type of pests and which materials were
affected? - What was done to solve the problem?
- Are there potential insect habitats in your
facility? In storage areas?
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Survey Questions (cont.)
- How can rodents or insects enter my facility?
- Are incoming materials routinely inspected and
quarantined?
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Recognizing that you have a problem is the 1st
step
- Do inspections regularly
- Look for signs of bug life
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Control
- Map possible entry points
- Monitor with traps
- Housecleaning
- No food or plants
- No plants near walls
- Inhospitable internal climate
- Temperature lt68 degrees
- Humidity lt40 percent
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Cleaning
- Regular cleaning plan
- Undisturbed places, dust, and dirt all attract
bugs
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Control (cont.)
- Routes of Entry
- Windows, doors, any openings
- Water Sources
- No leaks
- Food Sources
- Plants
- Incoming Collections
- Isolate/examine
- Treatment
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Treatment
- Non-Chemical
- Modified atmosphere
- Heat
- Gamma Radiation
- Freeze and Isolate incoming materials
- Isolate bag and seal
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Treatment (cont.)
- Chemical
- Poison
- Traps
- Repellants
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Conclusion
- Prevention preferable to Treatment
- Who you gonna call?
- FRASSBUSTERS!
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References
- http//www.nedcc.org/p101cs/p101wel.htm
- http//www.naa.gov.au/recordkeeping/rkpubs/advices
/advice36.html - http//libweb.hawaii.edu/libdept/preservation/inde
x.htm
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Questions?
- Thank you.
- Contact cvance_at_hawaii.edu
- beardsle_at_hawaii.edu
- gthiroha_at_hawaii.edu
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