Implementation Grant Project

FAIN: PF-50472-14

Center for Research Libraries (Chicago, IL 60637-2804)
Don O. Dyer (Project Director: December 2013 to July 2014)
Patrick Lummen (Project Director: July 2014 to December 2015)

Improvements to the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system at the Center for Research Libraries, which holds over five million items including rare and unique volumes and primary source materials dating from the 17th through the 20th centuries.

A Preservation and Access: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections implementation grant application to fund a capital improvement project to upgrade the heat and air conditioning system software and replace the two networks of sensors and controllers that automate the system that provides a preservation storage environment for the Center's 93,750 square feet of collection storage space.