Deacidification of Books

Preservation Technologies in Cranberry Park, PA is a company that will do mass deacidification in a machine they named "Bookkeeper" (although they can also deacidify loose papers in the machine).   We presently send a monthly shipment of books to them for deacidification, as does the Library of Congress and several other major libraries.  If your library or archive is interested in deacidifying material, you will definitely want to contact them.

" Mass deacidification : An update of possibilities and limitations"  by Henk J. Porck Department of Library Research Koninklijke Bibliotheek/National Library of the Netherlands The Hague. The are using Bookeeper and this report discusses the advantages of this method as compared to others.  

Northwestern University Library  uses Preservation Technologies; they have prepared a graphic intensive web page that describes the process; they also invite questions on their webpage.

"Mass Deacidification Reports Issued by the Library of Congress " includes an evaluation of the Bookkeeper process.

CoOL's "Mass Deacification" Page -- a page of links to other information.