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Archive: April 2022 (2 Posts)

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

Preservation Week 2022: Fragments, Discovery and Creating Knowledge

Posted by: Tana Villafana

Every year the Preservation Directorate of the Library of Congress participates in American Library Association’s Preservation Week. This annual celebration highlights preservation efforts in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies and collecting institutions in communities all across the country. Fenella France, Chief of the Library’s Preservation Research and Testing Division (PRTD), started out Preservation Week with a heritage scientific introduction to the world of fragments.

Posted in: Conservation, Heritage Science, Preservation, Preservation Week, Rare Books and Special Collections

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

Finding My Desk, 414 Days Later

Posted by: Tana Villafana

This is a guest post by Hadley Johnson, a Library Technician with the Preservation Research and Testing Division. She writes about some of the projects she worked on remotely, while starting as a new employee during COVID lockdown.

Posted in: Heritage Science