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Interesting topic. At our museum we don't have any air conditioning, but we keep a number of fans going with open windows (plus keeping windows with direct sunlight closed). It wasn't until the last few years that the heat has become so oppressive in our building but we've never closed because of it. ...

That was one of the options I had in mind, but I wasn't sure about precedence on the matter. Glad to see I may be thinking along the right lines. Thanks! ------------------------------ Rebecca Chapin Archivist Historic Geneva ------------------------------

None of the materials had actual accession paperwork or donor information, as happened a lot in our institution pre-2000s. We have multiple copies of the booklets already, we don't see the need to keep more than 3 of each and our collections committee agreed to deaccession them. It's the dispersal where ...

We are deaccessioning excess published booklets whose author has been known to exaggerate or outright make up information on local and national history. Ethically, it doesn't feel right to sell or donate them to the local library book sale without any context. Some of the booklets are bound, others were ...