ASHRAE guidelines

I am interested to know what are American conservators' position on
the "2003 ASHRAE's Applications Handbook--Chapter 21--Museums,
Libraries, and Archives", and is it generally endorsed by AIC and
other groups. Are the temperature and RH specifications presented in
the document recommended by conservators? I present this question
because the RH and temperature bandwidths seem rather large--are
these performance targets presently applied in institutions or are
they only representing what ASHRAE considers achievable and
acceptable.

Noa Cahaner McManus
Paper Conservator
Rishpon, Israel


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