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Thank you everyone for the suggestions so far, they have given me some avenues to pursue. We do have a disaster recovery vendor and had not thought of that, but it does make sense. We did not own the material when the disaster happened, so it will be interesting to see if that is a possibility. It would ...

Thank you so much. It is a difficult problem for sure! Leslie Courtois Conservator 804.692.3511 leslie.courtois@lva.virginia.gov 800 East Broad St. | Richmond, VA 23219 www.lva.virginia.gov

Luisa, I think the smell is strong because there was a very large quantity of oil in the room for a long time, and it probably got hot in there which helped it to volatize, then there was no ventilation to the room. We can't spend more than 5 minutes around the material because it starts to cause ...

My institution is in the process of accessioning a large collection (100 banker's boxes) of paper records that were stored in a basement where an oil furnace ruptured and spilled fuel oil out on the floor. It does not seem that anything was actually exposed directly to the liquid oil, but the off gassing ...