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Posted by: Bobbi Hinton
In the first of our new staff series, Backgrounds as Vast as Our Collections: The Research and Testing Division, we meet Chris Bolser. Chris is a preservation technician who has been with the library for about 8 years.
Posted in: Internships, Preservation
Posted by: Amelia Parks
In 2017, Jeanne Drewes, began an independent oral history project as part of the Occupational Folklife Project to document the occupational trade and work-related experiences of professional bookbinders. Now available, the interviews document the histories of individual binderies, trace intertwined firm histories, and encourage interviewees to discuss how the binders’ occupation and the preservation of books have changed over the years.
Posted in: Collections Care, Preservation
Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Read this post to learn about conservation treatment on silver gelatine, portrait photographs from the Nancy Pelosi Papers. These treatments were performed as part of a post-graduate internship at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation
Posted by: Aaron D. Chaletzky
This is a joint post by Aaron Chaletzky and Gabrielle Alongi. This past June, the Preservation Services Division (PSD) took on a new Preservation Intern: Gabrielle Alongi. Gabrielle is currently enrolled in the Information Sciences program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She comes to PSD with an interest in digital library and management work, …
Posted in: Born Digital, Collections Care, Collections Management, Conservation, Internships, Preservation, Reformatting, Tangible Media, Uncategorized
Posted by: Bobbi Hinton
Scientific research meets the allure of the past as Tineta Nkoronye, an intern at the PRTD at the LOC, delves into the world of preservation chemistry as she explores predictions made by William J. Barrow. Learn about the analytical methods used to carry out this experiment and discover whether Barrow's predictions were accurate or not.
Posted in: Collections Care, Heritage Science, Internships, Preservation
Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Read all about GCCS intern Mary Lawrence's summer at the Library of Congress, and the preservation treatments and practices she experienced.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Internships, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections, Uncategorized
Posted by: K.F. Shovlin
The staff of the Processing and Preparation Section have a high standard for the bound items that leave their doors. As part of that pursuit of perfection, they pick up on certain bits of language, both foreign and computer programming. This is the first post of a series on that pursuit.
Posted in: Collections Management, Preservation, Tools of the Trade
Posted by: Bobbi Hinton
Register to join us at the Library of Congress on September 13th from 10 am - 4 pm. Speakers will address the history of the Irish manuscripts, complementary research projects in which they are involved, and the results of the analytical techniques involved in the research. As Inks&Skins is a collaboration between heritage science and humanities, the importance of a visualization platform to share the results with humanities scholars will also be discussed.
Posted in: Fragments, Heritage Science, Pigments, Preservation, Tools of the Trade
Posted by: Bobbi Hinton
My summer at the Library was spent capturing data from colored pigments in order to build a reference database. Using a high-tech portable FTIR instrument, I prepared samples and collected infrared readings from 50 pigments in the Library’s collection using three of the portable instrument’s attachments. I compiled 150 measurements in order to create the database’s foundation.
Posted in: Heritage Science, Internships, Pigments, Preservation, Tools of the Trade