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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
Posted by: Neely Tucker
"The Battle of the Century," a Laurel and Hardy silent film thought to be lost forever, was found a few years ago and today was entered into the Library's National Film Registry.
Posted in: Audiovisual, Film, National Film Preservation Board, National Film Registry, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
It's Preservation Week, and the Library's Preservation Research and Testing Division has helped set national standards in cultural heritage institutions for half a century. Among other highlights, they've helped save "Captain America" comics and discovered Thomas Jefferson's edits in the Declaration of Independence.
Posted in: Comics, Libraries, Preservation, Preservation and Conservation, Science
Posted by: Mark Hartsell
Conservationists at the Library of Congress today are working to preserve the original material that forms the foundation of Les Paul's musical legacy.
Posted in: Music, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's Gandhara Scroll, one of the world's oldest Buddhist manuscripts, has been painstakingly preserved and digitized, making it available to readers online after years of delicate work.
Posted in: Preservation, Preservation and Conservation
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Pre-modern artists used almost anything to create vibrant colors for art and fabrics: bug guts, squid bones, shredded wood, hardened tree sap, walnut rinds, lye, tannic acid, iron sulfate, wine and, um, urine. Today, the Library’s Preservation Research and Testing Division is now recreating those colors the old-fashioned way as part of a newly developing field of preservation science.
Posted in: Preservation and Conservation