[BrentRitterbeck]

When I was a student at the University of Florida, I had the pleasure of working in the Special Collections department of the university library system. This is the department where collections significant to Florida history as well as really old things were kept. These items required a well controlled environment. I had the opportunity to discover many unique items, and I'm sure there are tons of things that some enterprising researcher may discover one day that no one currently knows about.

These Timbuktu items need to be preserved. In my opinion, destroying things of this nature, or letting them get destroyed through lack of care, is a very serious issue. I hope a larger body gets involved with this.