 | | (introduction...) |
 | | 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 |