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Posted by: Chloe Genter
Ron Martin-Dent, GCCS intern, describes his experience navigating the best way to construct a complicated housing.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Collections Management, Collections Storage, Conservation, Internships, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Chloe Genter
Paper conservator Shuhan Suzuki describes a treatment conducted on three Japanese military documents and outlines the steps taken to stabilize them.
Posted in: Care and Handling, Collections Care, Conservation, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Bobbi Hinton
By teaching Joe, my cat, about archives and preservation, I teach myself the best ways to communicate for each project or outreach event I participate in. Joe serves as my test audience, and while he might not directly tell me if I need to expand upon or parse out a section, presenting to him helps me analyze it for myself.
Posted in: Collections Management, Collections Storage, Events & Outreach, Internships, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
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: Bobbi Hinton
Micherlange Francois-Hemsley, a 2024 intern working on Identifying At-Risk Underrepresented Community Collections Learning from Our Collection: Assessing and Preserving At-Risk Materials, discusses her summer spent with the Preservation Research and Testing Division.
Posted in: Heritage Science, Internships, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Bobbi Hinton
The following is a guest post by Meghan Hill, a preservation specialist in the Preservation Research and Testing Division of the Library of Congress. Conference season is upon us; a time to learn about exciting new initiatives in the preservation field and in turn to showcase our own work, to reconnect with colleagues from other …
Posted in: Events & Outreach, Heritage Science, Pigments, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections
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: 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: Bobbi Hinton
Clays, gemstones, corrosion products, poisons, plants, and more – green pigments used in books and manuscripts over the centuries have some surprising origins!
Posted in: Collections Care, Heritage Science, Music, Pigments, Preservation, Rare Books and Special Collections