Loyola University New Orleans, J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library (J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library)

Loyola University’s J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library will purchase six temperature and humidity monitors and associated software to help maintain a stable, preservation environment for its special collections and archives. This equipment will help protect the library’s significant holdings of Jesuit materials, which include the Archives of the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus. The library also has significant holdings related to environmental activism, public affairs, literature, and the arts, among them, the papers of author Robert Giroux, letters written by journalist H. L. Mencken, and a fine collection of fore-edged painted books.