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Hi All, 

We have a few old books which have what appears to be inactive mold on them. Over the summer we had some challenges managing the humidity in our storage space and a few more books started showing signs of mold. To be on the safe side and as a temporary fix we have bagged all the 'sick' books to keep the mold from spreading (either the old inactive becoming active or the new active contaminating other books). 

So my question is:

What do we do as a long term solution for cleaning/treating the inactive mold and how do we go about treating the active mold? I know the books cant and shouldn't stay bagged forever!

Any thoughts and ideas are appreciated as we have limited resources (no conservators in the area)! 

Thank you from Selkirk, Canada!

I'm going to leave the question of how to remove the mold residue from the books to the experts, but just remind everyone that mold spores exist everywhere (i.e., in the air) and only need the correct environment to bloom.    Bagging the affected books will prevent humans from being exposed to potentially harmful mold, but will not keep the mold from growing elsewhere.    To paraphrase the X Files (and show my age) "the mold spores are out there".

Hi All, 

We have a few old books which have what appears to be inactive mold on them. Over the summer we had some challenges managing the humidity in our storage space and a few more books started showing signs of mold. To be on the safe side and as a temporary fix we have bagged all the 'sick' books to keep the mold from spreading (either the old inactive becoming active or the new active contaminating other books). 

So my question is:

What do we do as a long term solution for cleaning/treating the inactive mold and how do we go about treating the active mold? I know the books cant and shouldn't stay bagged forever!

Any thoughts and ideas are appreciated as we have limited resources (no conservators in the area)! 

Thank you from Selkirk, Canada!

Hi All, 

We have a few old books which have what appears to be inactive mold on them. Over the summer we had some challenges managing the humidity in our storage space and a few more books started showing signs of mold. To be on the safe side and as a temporary fix we have bagged all the 'sick' books to keep the mold from spreading (either the old inactive becoming active or the new active contaminating other books). 

So my question is:

What do we do as a long term solution for cleaning/treating the inactive mold and how do we go about treating the active mold? I know the books cant and shouldn't stay bagged forever!

Any thoughts and ideas are appreciated as we have limited resources (no conservators in the area)! 

Thank you from Selkirk, Canada!

Hi All, 

We have a few old books which have what appears to be inactive mold on them. Over the summer we had some challenges managing the humidity in our storage space and a few more books started showing signs of mold. To be on the safe side and as a temporary fix we have bagged all the 'sick' books to keep the mold from spreading (either the old inactive becoming active or the new active contaminating other books). 

So my question is:

What do we do as a long term solution for cleaning/treating the inactive mold and how do we go about treating the active mold? I know the books cant and shouldn't stay bagged forever!

Any thoughts and ideas are appreciated as we have limited resources (no conservators in the area)! 

Thank you from Selkirk, Canada!

Hi All, 

We have a few old books which have what appears to be inactive mold on them. Over the summer we had some challenges managing the humidity in our storage space and a few more books started showing signs of mold. To be on the safe side and as a temporary fix we have bagged all the 'sick' books to keep the mold from spreading (either the old inactive becoming active or the new active contaminating other books). 

So my question is:

What do we do as a long term solution for cleaning/treating the inactive mold and how do we go about treating the active mold? I know the books cant and shouldn't stay bagged forever!

Any thoughts and ideas are appreciated as we have limited resources (no conservators in the area)! 

Thank you from Selkirk, Canada!

Hi All, 

We have a few old books which have what appears to be inactive mold on them. Over the summer we had some challenges managing the humidity in our storage space and a few more books started showing signs of mold. To be on the safe side and as a temporary fix we have bagged all the 'sick' books to keep the mold from spreading (either the old inactive becoming active or the new active contaminating other books). 

So my question is:

What do we do as a long term solution for cleaning/treating the inactive mold and how do we go about treating the active mold? I know the books cant and shouldn't stay bagged forever!

Any thoughts and ideas are appreciated as we have limited resources (no conservators in the area)! 

Thank you from Selkirk, Canada!