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Posted by: K.F. Shovlin
In 2025, the Library celebrates 125 years of binding and hereby commemorates the hard work that went into making this happen.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Preservation
Posted by: Chloe Genter
Ron Martin-Dent, GCCS intern, describes his experience navigating the best way to construct a complicated housing.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Collections Management, Collections Storage, Conservation, Internships, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Chloe Genter
Paper conservator Shuhan Suzuki describes a treatment conducted on three Japanese military documents and outlines the steps taken to stabilize them.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Chloe Genter
A wholly unique object acts as a snapshot in time. The object - an Explainette, and its accompanying film, LPs, and booklets featured a variety of different materials and challenges. It came to the Conservation Division for treatment and housing so that it could be regularly displayed for visitors in the future.
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Posted by: Chloe Genter
John Bertonaschi is a Senior Rare Book Conservator for the Conservation Division. In this post, John will speak about how he and other Conservation staff made plans on how to get the Law Library manuscript entitled 'Decretum Gratiani' ready for a sympathetic binding.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: K.F. Shovlin
Preservation staff stepped out of the shadows and into the brights lights of Live! at the Library ahead of Preservation Week 2024.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Emergency Preparedness, Events & Outreach, Preservation, Preservation Week, Reformatting, Tangible Media, Tools of the Trade
Posted by: K.F. Shovlin
A Binding Technician takes note of items from the public record finding a place on the Library’s shelves.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Collections Management, Preservation, Tangible Media
Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Read along to learn about how Preservation Specialist Kate Morrison-Danzis worked to preserve photos, pamphlets, notebooks, and other archival materials to prepare them for digitization.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Preservation
Posted by: K.F. Shovlin
The Preservation Services Division came to the rescue as newspapers from Africa needed a brief holdover on their seven-thousand-mile journey to become part of the Library of Congress’ collection.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Management, Collections Storage, Offsite Storage, Preservation, Reformatting, Tangible Media