[PADG:116] storage facility environmental conditions

["Baker, Whitney S" <wbaker@xxxxxx>]

I have been asked to gather input from other research libraries that have off-site storage facilities for library materials.  What are the environmental guidelines currently in place in your facilities (where no humans normally work)?  The recommendations our facilities librarian has received from a colleague are to maintain the temperature at a constant 50 degrees and the RH at 30%.  He wonders if these are standard figures. 

Thanks for your response,
 
Whitney Baker
Conservator, University of Kansas Libraries
1425 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 135
Lawrence, KS  66045-7544
(785) 864-3429; (785) 864-5311 (fax)
wbaker@xxxxxx <mailto:wbaker@xxxxxx>
www2.lib.ku.edu/preservation