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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.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Collections Storage, Conservation, Preservation
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: 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.
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Posted by: Chloe Genter
A cartoon of famous 19th century British jockey, Tom Loates was in desperate need of treatment. This blog explores the work conducted in order to treat this important work, and the results that were discovered.
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Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904) was one of the first American artists to make a career of book cover design. From 1880 to 1904 she designed around 300 book covers, mostly for Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Her covers sold books so well that the publisher mentioned her name as the cover designer in its advertisements.
Posted in: Conservation, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Amelia Parks
On Friday, March 8th, staff from each division of the Preservation Directorate were invited onstage at Washington, D.C.’s comic convention, Awesome Con, to speak about their work at the Library as part of the convention’s Science Fair. This is their story.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Management, Conservation, Emergency Preparedness, Events & Outreach, Internships, Preservation, Reformatting, Tools of the Trade
Posted by: Chloe Genter
Paper Conservator Gwenanne Edwards discusses the conservation of several charming and delightful toy theaters from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Collections Storage, Conservation, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Chloe Genter
Two large architectural models by Paul Rudolph were selected as part of a large loan that will be on display September 2024. The models were in extremely poor condition, broken, water- damaged, and covered in a thick layer of dust and debris. A team of five5 technicians and the objects conservator worked to get the models back into stable and displayable condition.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Collections Storage, Conservation, Preservation