Archive: May 2021 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Samantha Schireson; (Year) 2021; (Month) May

Close-up view of two hands carefully at work on an aged, yellowing manuscript with handwriting

Recently Published: A Final Report on Heat- and Solvent-Set Repair Tissues

May 10, 2021

This post was authored by Katherine Kelly. Katherine is a Senior Conservator at the Library of Congress where she works primarily on repairing and rebinding books from the Geography and Map Division and the Music Division. In December of 2016, a group of conservators and conservation scientists from the Library of Congress (LC) and the …

Posted in: Preservation

Conservation at the Library: What We Do!

May 7, 2021

Posted by: Samantha Schireson

The Library of Congress stewards hundreds of thousands of paper-based and special format materials, and the Conservation Division at the Library employs a diverse staff of conservators, preservation specialists and technicians to treat and care for the incredible range of collections. Special collections materials, as well as the expansive general collection, are cared for according …

Posted in: Preservation

Refined by: (Author) Samantha Schireson; (Year) 2021; (Month) May