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Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Read this post to learn about conservation treatment on silver gelatine, portrait photographs from the Nancy Pelosi Papers. These treatments were performed as part of a post-graduate internship at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation
Posted by: Aaron D. Chaletzky
This is a joint post by Aaron Chaletzky and Gabrielle Alongi. This past June, the Preservation Services Division (PSD) took on a new Preservation Intern: Gabrielle Alongi. Gabrielle is currently enrolled in the Information Sciences program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She comes to PSD with an interest in digital library and management work, …
Posted in: Born Digital, Collections Care, Collections Management, Conservation, Internships, Preservation, Reformatting, Tangible Media, Uncategorized
Posted by: Lily Tyndall
Read all about GCCS intern Mary Lawrence's summer at the Library of Congress, and the preservation treatments and practices she experienced.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Internships, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections, Uncategorized
Posted by: Chloe Genter
Senior Rare Book Conservator John Bertonaschi will write about the efforts made to repair some of the wear and tear suffered by the Decretum Gratiani manuscript over the past 700 years.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections, Uncategorized
Posted by: K.F. Shovlin
The long term accessibility of the Library of Congress collection is ensured by binding as overseen by the Processing and Preparation Section.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Collections Management, Conservation, Preservation
Posted by: Lily Tyndall
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.
Posted in: Collections Care, Collections Management, Conservation, Preservation
Posted by: Bobbi Hinton
Curators, conservators, and preservation scientists collaborate to conduct pre-exhibit testing on 18th Century thangka, Buddha Shakyamuni which will be displayed in Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress, in late 2023.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Events & Outreach, Heritage Science, Preservation
Posted by: Chloe Genter
On April 13th and 14th, the Library hosted From Jikji to Gutenberg, the Scholarly Colloquium, a meeting of scholars, historians, conservators, and librarians from seven countries. The colloquium is part of a scholarly effort to promote understanding and awareness in the West about early printing with moveable type in Korea that pre-dates Gutenberg’s famous Bible. Jikji is the abbreviated title of the world’s oldest extant book made with moveable type, printed in Cheongju, Korea in 1377, preceding the Gutenberg Bible by 77 years.
Posted in: Conservation, Events & Outreach, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Chloe Genter
Senior Rare Book Conservator John Bertonaschi will be describing the manuscript and what we know of its history and provenance.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Conservation, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections