News Showing news stories tagged with "Conservation" At the Book Spa: Replacing Missing Pages 7/8/2024 Welcome back to the Book Spa, where the Preservation unit of the Special Collections Research Center shows you how we care for and rehabilitate books that are in the midst of a hard life. This… Elegant Enclosures: Sonic Welding 5/21/2024 Preservation is back with another post in our Elegant Enclosures series. These are processes and solutions we come up with to house objects that are not suited for standard boxes. Check out our… Behind the Glass: The Craft of Exhibit Preparation 4/15/2024 The “College of Design: 75 Years of Designing Tomorrow” exhibit recently debuted in the D.H. Jr. Hill Library exhibit gallery. This new exhibit, researched and written by graduate students Shima… Deciphering Damage: The Delicate Balance of Book Repair 3/4/2024 Now that we’ve shown you a couple of book repair treatments that we perform in Preservation, we want to offer an inside look at the philosophy and thought processes for deciding what repairs are… At The Book Spa! Adhesive Bind 11/21/2023 Welcome back to another episode of At The Book Spa! Last time we talked about that great little treatment, the Spine Repair. This time we’re going to get a little more invasive with the book,… Elegant Enclosures: Gussow Boxes 10/4/2023 Preservation is back with our first post in a series we are calling Elegant Enclosures! We want to share the process and solutions we come up with to house objects that are not suited for standard… At the Book Spa! Spine Repair 9/5/2023 If you saw our blog post on July 24, 2023, you’ll remember we gave a general overview of the work that is done in the Libraries’ Preservation Unit. Today we’re taking a deeper dive and starting… A Peek into Preservation 7/24/2023 Greetings from Preservation! Our unit recently merged with the Special Collections Research Center, and we are excited to give you an overview of the many things we do!Three of us make up the… Conservation of Archival Materials 9/4/2019 Processor pointing out damaged material Contributed by Phillip MacDonald and Taylor Wolford, Library Associates According to the Society of American Archivists (SAA), conservation of… Caring for the last white rhino 8/16/2019 How do you stop an extinction? Kifaru, a feature-length documentary that follows a rhino caretaker unit in Kenya, shows how excruciating it is to attempt to answer this question. The Global Film… Pagination Current page 1 Page 2 Next page Next Last page Last »