The handling and movement of mould-affected material should be minimised to reduce the health risk to staff, and of cross-contamination within your collection. Material displaying inactive mould ...

Mould is one of the unspoken challenges that faces all heritage collections and, on occasion, our homes – whether from damp or food overstaying its shelf life. They are a diverse form of life which, ...

A risk assessment will provide a framework to identify hazards, assess associated risks and determine appropriate control measures. When mould is present within a collection and/or its storage space, ...

Due to age, storage and usage, archive and library collections may be soiled and discoloured, making it difficult to tell the difference between mould growth and historic dirt deposits. As such, ...

During mould growth, digestive enzymes cause weakening of the surface. This can impact significantly on the condition of a document and lead to irreversible damage, including: Adhesion and/or blocking ...

Mould exists in one of three states – it is actively growing, inactive, or non-viable (dead). While it is understood that active mould is hazardous to both the collection and those accessing it, it is ...

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Better education of children is one of our great aims for the post war world. The Education Act which embodies all our hopes became law on August 3rd last. Since then many people have felt that the ...

Late in 2022, Somerset Archives were informed that a series of 20th century business records had been found by developers in a disused premises in South Somerset. The archives, which had been stored ...

Mary Cook, whose husband has been lately transported for sheep stealing, is left with 4 young Children, one of them an infant, and requires Parish relief. Now in this case the family wd cost 11s a ...

What were the outcomes for service users? Prior to the mould project, collection production for researchers was routinely affected by the mould outbreak. Items were often only identified as mouldy ...

In 2023 archive staff at Hertford College Archives were packing their archives to transfer them into specialist storage ahead of their Library & Archive redevelopment project. Staff discovered an ...