Deconstruction begins on four-floor building laden with books, debris -- and treasures.
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Hi Michael – How does one get in touch with this lady? I work for a charity that raises money by selling pre-owned books. Thanks, Jan.
I have been a proponent of Book Museums for some time. The idea seems corny. After all we have libraries. Right? But libraries don’t want all these old and wonderful books now. Public libraries are digital hot spots now.
Will some philanthropist come forward now and save the best pieces of this collection and preserve them in a meaningful climate controlled space?
How about donating significant pieces to the UWM, Marquette, Mount Mary and other Wisconsin colleges that have interest in the topics of the books? These university libraries are well suited and capable of taking a few orphan pieces to a new home. If nothing else save the art books and pictorials! Digital printing has not yet reached the quality of Linotype or lithograph.
Great article.
Save the books.
Regarding book preservation. If a book has mold it cannot be saved. Mold like rust corrupts all the nearby product. The only reason to try to preserve a mold infested book is because it has exceptional value or rarity. The success of mold remediation in books is limited and the cost can be high.
Hi Jan! Please feel free to email me – Kathryn@recyclean.net. Thanks for your interest!
No worries Gloria – we are all over it! As a historian and as a green company as a whole, saving and preserving is a very high priority – for both us and the current owners.
What happened to the comments from Thoman? They appear in the “Recent Comments” sidebar but there is nothing here.
Hi Casey – I was having a hard time seeing them too, but now they are there….perhaps they go thru a screening or verification process first before they are available to the public?
@Kat Yes the comments were in the comment queue for a bit, though I’m unsure why they showed up in Recent Comments and not on the page right away. We’ll look into it. thanks
I loved that old store. I spent hours over the years wandering all through it looking for comic books and science fiction and whatever else caught my eye. If the comics are still there I can tell you there are many thousands of dollars worth of old classics. I bet there are still a few buried down there you wouldn’t believe. And the records. He had records going back to the beginning of records at one time. Envious!