SITUATION: To protect rare and historic U.S. literary treasures against the ravages of time, a team of experts set out to rescue the irreplaceable collections at the State Library of Pennsylvania. Special considerations called for a unique storage solution that would take the protection and preservation of paper-based archives to new heights. A BEACON FOR PRESERVATION TECHNICALLY ADVANCED STORAGE SOLUTION AT STATE LIBRARY OF PENNSYLVANIA SAFEGUARDS PRICELESS U.S. LITERARY TREASURES GAINING BACK CONTROL When poor environmental conditions threatened the survival of some of the earliest recordings of U.S. history, officials built a new $7.2 million library space based on a preventive conservation approach that incorporates the use of integrated and advanced technology. At the n

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