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Posted by: Chloe Genter
Senior Rare Book Conservator John Bertonaschi will write about the efforts made to repair some of the wear and tear suffered by the Decretum Gratiani manuscript over the past 700 years.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections, Uncategorized
Posted by: Bobbi Hinton
Join us, at The Library of Congress or virtually, as we discuss “Assessing the Physical Condition of the National Collection (ANC)”. This Andrew W. Mellon funded project has collected data from over 2500 volumes to compare the physical, chemical and optical characteristics of 500 “identical” books from five large research libraries in distinct regions of …
Posted in: Collections Care, Collections Management, Events & Outreach, Heritage Science, Preservation
Posted by: Bobbi Hinton
Smudges on pages aren't always a bad thing. Cultural Historian Bénédicte Miyamoto and preservation scientists at The Library of Congress analyze dirty books to learn more about their prior owners.
Posted in: Heritage Science, Pigments, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944) was one of the most successful book design artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She designed more than three hundred covers, mostly for Scribner during a period beginning in the 1870s that has been called the Golden Age of Book Design.
Posted in: Rare Books and Special Collections