During this summer, the Collections Management Division (CMD) embarked on a marathon of in-person care and handling training sessions for staff and contracts to illustrate the importance of following best practices when managing the materials throughout daily activities in order to preserve and prevent damages to the collections.
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.
This blog highlights the projects carried out by two student interns: at the Collections Management Division this summer and what this experience will mean to their careers.
The COVID-19 Pandemic caused offices across the world to adapt to working from home, but how do you do that if you're a librarian? The staff of the Processing and Preparation Section had to make changes to their technology and their processes to make the leap to telework.
This blog highlights some suggestions to keep in mind when moving collections off-site based on the presentation given by Cathy Martyniak, Chief of the Collections Management Division (CMD), during the 2022 Preservation Week.
Continuing the When Every Piece Counts-The Fragment Project Series, this blog takes a step back and focus more on the nature of the fragments and where most of them are coming from.
This blog takes you back in history to explore interesting design changes made in the Jefferson Building stacks that influenced the stack naming convention. In addition, it shows some current practical solutions to help staff navigate the Jefferson stacks.
Read about the controversial book Finding Freedom: How Death Row Broke and Opened My Heart by Jarvis Jay Masters, published in 1997 in limited release, and learn about the program through which the Library acquired his book, re-released in 2020. Masters was arrested in 1981 for armed robbery and sent to San Quentin State Prison, where he remains today, sentenced to death for a different crime he says he did not commit.