To add to what Bill said, Legionnaires Disease has been known to occur
from records/archives folks handling old and moldy paper records.

Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM
Records Systems Manager; City of Reno

>>> [log in to unmask] 4/2/2007 2:50 PM >>>
>>Since the records are dry, and have been dry for quite a while now,
they pose no problem.<<

I would suggest that you might want to get another opinion.  I have
had
to deal with it in the past and the warnings have always been to tread
carefully.  Mold spores on dried records are not dead, only waiting
for
proper growing conditions (Read noses and eyes of folks exposed.)  
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