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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
Government offices rely on consistent output from their technology, and sometimes those devices operate long past their expected retirement. One technician reflects as he replaces a printer used for nearly thirteen years.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Preservation Week, Tangible Media
Posted by: Amelia Parks
Register now for Preservation Week webinars. We have four webinars during the week of April 29th that feature some of the work we do in Preservation.
Posted in: Events & Outreach, Preservation, Preservation Week
Posted by: Amelia Parks
Preservation Week at the Library of Congress starts April 24th and it’s one of our favorite times of the year! The trees are blooming and it’s time for the Preservation Directorate to fling open our (virtual) doors and welcome you inside. We see Preservation Week as our opportunity to draw back the curtain and let …
Posted in: Events & Outreach, Preservation, Preservation Week
Posted by: Beatriz Haspo
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.
Posted in: Collections Management, Offsite Storage, Preservation, Preservation Week
Posted by: Tana Villafana
Every year the Preservation Directorate of the Library of Congress participates in American Library Association’s Preservation Week. This annual celebration highlights preservation efforts in libraries, archives, museums, historical societies and collecting institutions in communities all across the country. Fenella France, Chief of the Library’s Preservation Research and Testing Division (PRTD), started out Preservation Week with a heritage scientific introduction to the world of fragments.
Posted in: Conservation, Heritage Science, Preservation, Preservation Week, Rare Books and Special Collections