Welcome to Preservation Week!
What is Preservation? It is about the “Big Picture”. Libraries, museums, and archives of all kinds keep an eye on the environment that materials live in. Hewes Library monitors temperature and humidity to keep our books comfortable and we try to minimize contact with direct sunlight, so they don’t fade away.
We discourage eating and drinking around collections just in case there is a spill! We also keep an eye out for critters, because they like to eat and drink...and they like to eat and drink our books and the materials they are made of! 
We also ask that users take good care of the items they are borrowing…puppies like books, too, just not for reading!
Pictured: a chewed up book, examples of food and drink and the pests that they attract, and the Hewes Library temperature and humidity logs.
