> We received a professionally constructed wooden cabinet for slide
> storage (with thousands of slides for which we have found other
> homes).  My question, is this type of cabinet an okay choice for long
> term storage of our own slide collection.  The interiors of the
> drawers are unfinished wood.

The short answer to this is no.  Wood offgasses acidic vapors, some
woods much worse than others.  I recommend you check the following
reference for a good discussion of this problem:

Hatchfield, Pamela.  1995.  Wood and wood products.  Pp. 283-290 in
Rose, C.L., C.A. Hawks, and H.H. Genoways (eds).  Storage of Natural
History Collections:  A Preventive Conservation Approach.  Society
for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC).

--John
John Simmons
Natural History Museum
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas