AUTHOR: Tana Villafana

Tana Villafana was a chemist in the Preservation Research and Testing Division. She used her background in spectroscopy, microscopy and imaging to non-invasively analyze and identify the materials in the Library’s vast collection, often leading to impactful data that can inform object history and guide preservation treatments. Tana worked towards her B.S in Chemistry at the University of Illinois at Chicago; by day researching ultrafast laser phenomena in the school’s basement and by night, going to poetry slams and playing music at local venues.

Most Recent Posts

• Tracing Sound: Adding Functionality to Contactless Audio Recording Digitization September 27th, 2022
• Paints and Pigments – When Art and Science Combines August 20th, 2022
• Climate Correlation: Environmental Monitoring at the Library of Congress August 1st, 2022
• Eighteenth Century Track Changes: Uncovering Revisions in Founding Fathers’ Documents July 7th, 2022
• Reflecting on the Past and Imagining the Future at the American Institute for Conservation’s 50th Annual Meeting June 6th, 2022
• Low-Oxygen Encasements for Long-Term Displays May 9th, 2022
• Preservation Week 2022: Fragments, Discovery and Creating Knowledge April 27th, 2022
• Finding My Desk, 414 Days Later April 11th, 2022
• Pandemic-era Testing for a New Exhibit Takes a Highly Trained (and Masked!) Village March 14th, 2022