# Understanding Risks to Collections Through Physical and Chemical Analyses

The Library of Congress regularly examines, and tests materials used in rehousing and construction of exhibition cases and collections storage areas, such as vaults, stacks and off-site storage. The goal of this work is to assess and minimize risks that such materials would pose to Library collections during storage and exhibition. This presentation will discuss methods, requirements and challenges of the storage of archival and cultural heritage materials, as well as examine links between the risks that materials have presented and the components we have identified as plausible culprits.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 1 h
- By: Monroe, Eric
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-9942/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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