The Q and D answer is that, for a period of less than a year, you don't need acid-free boxes.  In the ideal world, you may hear differently, of course, but in the real world of historic houses, you will be fine.

Marc

---- Lenora Henson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
> We are getting ready for a large construction/renovation project during
> which, among other things, we plan to remove about 2000 books from the
> shelves in our house museum's period library and store them for 8-10
> months.  The books are collection items and most of them are from the 19th
> century (or earlier).  Since we don't know at this point where the books
> are going to be stored, we plan to wrap each book with acid-free tissue
> before boxing it (the theory being that, if the boxes of books wind up
> staying in the house during construction, wrapping them will provide an
> additional barrier against the inevitable dust).  My question is this . . .
> if the books are wrapped in acid-free tissue, would it be okay to then
> store them in non-archival boxes?  (Yes, there is, of course, a cost factor
> here--buying archival boxes for all of these books will completely wipe out
> my budget!!)
> 
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Lenora Henson
> Curator, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site
> 
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