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Vacuum Freeze-Drying, a Method Used to Salvage Water-Damaged Archival and Library Materials: A RAMP Study with Guidelines (UNESCO, 1987)
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Preface
Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Water-soaked paper
3. Stabilization by freezing
4. Vacuum freeze-drying
5. Alternate methods of drying
6. Vacuum freeze-drying vs vacuum-drying
7. freeze-drying is not a new process
8. Early experiments in freeze-drying books and documents
9. The use of vacuum chambers for recovery of water-damaged archival and library materials
10. Other vacuum and freeze-drying activities
11. Commercial sources for freezing and drying
12. Cost of vacuum-drying and freeze-drying
13. Low cost freezing and drying in an emergency
14. What freeze-drying will not do
15. Cooperative approach to the use of freeze-dry chambers
16. An open forum on freeze-drying
17. A final word: disaster preparedness planning
18. References