![]() “It’s the wild fluctuations, from fall to winter and from winter to spring, that damage the books.” ![]() “The advantage of being underground is you don’t get the seasonal transitions,” he says of the environment, which is calibrated to precisely 63 degrees and 45 percent relative humidity year-round. Paul) is drawn-are kept in one of the Andersen’s underground caverns. Although Johnson, who’s obviously the cool librarian with his white goatee and earring, doesn’t actually drop an “elementary” on me he explains why 60,000 pieces of Holmes stuff-from which most of the touring show Sherlock Holmes: The Exhibition opening this month at the Minnesota History Center (345 Kellogg Blvd. McDiarmid curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the Andersen Library, the answer is elementary. To librarian Tim Johnson, whose full title is the E. W. ![]() Here’s a mystery: Why is the largest Sherlock Holmes collection in the world-everything from rare first editions of Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories to one-of-a-kind vinyl recordings of the 1930 radio plays to weird needlepoint images of the fictional Victorian-era detective in his famous deerstalker hat-buried three stories underground at the University of Minnesota’s Andersen Library? ![]() Sherlock Holmes collection librarian Tim Johnson assures us that if he got us this deep into the stacks, he can get us out.
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