Preservation Librarian Jon Sweitzer-Lamme describes how the Library of Congress tracks down, identifies, preserves, and sometimes replaces its aging items using library knowledge, ingenuity, and digital resources.
Read along to find out about the atlas binding workshop held in the Preservation Directorate, where participants learned how to conserve, fold, and bind various types of atlases and book foldouts.
This article is about the experience of a summer intern in the Preservation Directorate, General Collections Conservation Section at the Library of Congress. It contains descriptions of basic repairs, book-making and paper-making labs, and other activities.