Universal Drying Chamber for Flood-Damaged Paper Objects.

The article offers information on the construction of a universal drying chamber for water-damaged library and archival materials at the National Library of the Czech Republic. It provides an overview of the implementation of the three different drying methods which include vacuum drying, vacuum freeze drying and drying in a controlled humidity atmosphere. It notes that books are placed in vertical slacks interleaved by innovative heating tiles to prevent distortion of book during treatment.