environment
The surrounding conditions or forces that
influence or change books or other archival
materials, and which include: 1) the entire
climatic and biotic factors that act upon
materials and ultimately determine their
permanence, or lack of it; or 2) the aggregate of
use, misuse, or nonuse that influence the
permanence of materials. See also: DURABILITY ;PERMANENT MATERIALS .
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