{"id":2523,"date":"2011-09-07T14:26:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T14:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2012-01-30T22:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T22:34:11","slug":"odor-reduction-for-books-in-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2011\/09\/07\/odor-reduction-for-books-in-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Odor Reduction for Books in Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Czech and Slovak Museum and Libraries have a vast collection of books damaged in the flood. Most of their collection is currently in storage in Cedar Rapids awaiting treatment. We recently received a box of books that was pretty smelly. In order to help curb the smell we developed a new way to use an odor reducer that we have been using for some time in the lab.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2531\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2012\/01\/tacking-iron.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2531\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2012\/01\/tacking-iron.jpg\" alt=\"sealing with a tacking iron\" width=\"267\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Technician seals the tea bag with the tacking iron.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2524\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2524\" style=\"width: 283px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2012\/01\/odor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2524\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2012\/01\/odor.jpg\" alt=\"Gonzo Odor Eliminator\" width=\"283\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large bag of Gonzo Odor Eliminator ready to be opened.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<p>The Gonzo Odor Eliminator comes in large bags, too big to fit into boxes filled with books.\u00a0 We decided to make smaller packages of the rocks to be able to place an odor eliminator into each box of books.\u00a0 We ordered large heat-sealable tea bags and set to work.\u00a0 Each package of Odor Eliminator was opened and poured into approximately 12 tea bags.\u00a0 Each bag was then sealed with a tacking iron.\u00a0 Once sealed the bags were placed into the boxes of books to help reduce the \u201cflood smell\u201d on the books.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2527\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2527\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2012\/01\/open-teabag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2527\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2012\/01\/open-teabag.jpg\" alt=\"Smaller odor reducing package\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2527\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gonzo Odor Eliminator in an open tea bag.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Czech and Slovak Museum and Libraries have a vast collection of books damaged in the flood. Most of their collection is currently in storage in Cedar Rapids awaiting treatment. We recently received a box of books that was pretty smelly. In order to help curb the smell we developed a new way to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2011\/09\/07\/odor-reduction-for-books-in-storage\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Odor Reduction for Books in Storage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,19],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}