Freeze-drying history?!
Preservation is one of the most important tasks for our State Archives employees and local government personnel who manage records. That means knowing what to do if any government documents are damaged. That’s exactly what happened recently in Ellensburg. Just a couple of nights after attending the State Archives’ disaster preparedness and response training course in Quincy, Kittitas County Assessor Marcia Weyand discovered that heavy rain had flooded the courthouse basement, causing water damage to several boxes of records kept…