Hello, Thank you for everyone who responded on and off list to my comment 
about throwing out newspapers after you copy them. I just want to clarify 
for the folks that sent me comments off list, I did not create the original 
post and I do not believe my institution even has many newspapers in the 
collection. Thank you for your concern but I was just wondering about 
actually throwing out donations just because they are acidic by nature and 
destined to turn to powder. The items I need to worry about in my collection 
are things like old gas masks (after reading a post about asbestos used in 
them) and our collection of ammuntitions (old grenades, RPG-2 rockets, 
cannon balls...the bomb squad has been here a few times to check what we 
find and mark it "inert").


Happy friday to everyone...enjoy your weekends.

Marielle

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Marielle Fortier
Museum Registrar
Vermont
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