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Absolutely. these volumes in here, they re our most valuable, our most valued. they re also our most vulnerable. this is this beautiful library, as you see, but, in effect, we re in an inner city ring road, and all that particulate pollution from all the traffic is coming through the windows and coming and landing on the books. so, there is a restoration project going on to deal with exactly that, right? absolutely. this year, the library has launched an ambitious 90 million euro restoration to improve the building s environmental controls and help protect the collection. during the project, every single one of these books will be cleaned, catalogued and moved off site. if you didn t do it, what would happen? well, the books would deteriorate more. the building, already, we know there are structural issues with it. we ve got to do it. actually, there isn t a choice.
And all that particulate pollution from all the traffic is coming through the windows and coming and landing on the books. so, there is a restoration project going on to deal with exactly that, right? absolutely. this year, the library has launched an ambitious 90 million euro restoration to improve the building s environmental controls and help protect the collection. during the project, every single one of these books will be cleaned, catalogued and moved off site. if you didn t do it, what would happen? well, the books would deteriorate more. the building, already, we know there are structural issues with it. we ve got to do it. actually, there isn t a choice. we absolutely have to do this project. the more damaged or vulnerable items will be treated here, at the conservation laboratory.
With exactly that, right? absolutely. this year, the library has launched an ambitious 90 million euro restoration to improve the building s environmental controls and help protect the collection. during the project, every single one of these books will be cleaned, catalogued and moved off site. if you didn t do it, what would happen? well, the books would deteriorate more. the building, already, we know there are structural issues with it. we ve got to do it. actually, there isn t a choice. we absolutely have to do this project. the more damaged or vulnerable items will be treated here, at the conservation laboratory. so, this is an example from the manuscripts collection. it s a map, and here it is being surface cleaned, and clodagh s using what we call a smoke sponge.