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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The ceramics created by ancient Maya potters make for some of the most vibrantly colored objects that survive in the archaeological record of the Americas. John Hessler, curator of the Library's Kislak collection, explains how their distinctive blue color has survived for centuries.
Posted in: Geography and Maps Division, Jay I. Kislak Collection, Library Work and Employees, Native Americans, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Conservators at the Library build small models of ancient volumes in order to learn more about their inner structure and how to better preserve them for future generations.
Posted in: Library Work and Employees, Preservation, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
George Willeman is the leader of the nitrate film vaults at the Library of Congress Packard Campus. Here, he tells about lost and nearly lost films he's discovered and helped preserve.
Posted in: Audiovisual, My Job, Preservation, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Preservation Directorate at Library launches their own blog, Guardians of Memory.
Posted in: Preservation, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library is collaborating with the international initiative Fragmentarium.ms to help pioneer digital fragmentology, piecing together long-ago manuscripts that were torn apart or had fallen into pieces over the centuries. Fragmentarium is building an international community around the ability to identify, search, compare, and collect data on medieval manuscript fragments. What does that mean? For one, it means that libraries across the world can work together to create complete virtual reconstructions of Ege’s manuscripts. O
Posted in: Manuscripts, Preservation and Conservation, Rare Book and Special Collections