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Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

Headline from Delaware Public Media

Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles.

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  1. Delaware Public Media

    Hungary's oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation (opens Delaware Public Media)

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    Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the start of a disinfection process that aims to kill the tiny beetles.

  2. New York Post

    Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from beetle infestation (opens New York Post)

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    Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.

  3. KEYT Santa Barbara

    Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation | News Channel 3-12 (opens KEYT Santa Barbara)

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    Story by the Associated Press Pannonhalma, Hungary (AP) — Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval

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