You may have seen items in the news about the mold outbreak in one of the MU Libraries’ offsite storage facility and wondered how it affects the Health Sciences Library collection.
The primary storage facility on Lemone Boulevard, where most of the Health Sciences Library off-site volumes reside, is climate-controlled and is not affected by mold. The storage facility with the mold contains 46,600 of our volumes. All of these volumes are over 30 years old and were sent to storage because they were not heavily used.
We expect to be able to maintain some level of access to all affected content. We’re hoping we might be able to replace some of the mold-affected volumes with online versions to allow instant access.
Additional details on the remediation process and procedures, is available on the MU Libraries website.