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Preservation Week 2013
Cornell University Library Conservation celebrated Preservation Week 2013 by posting a preservation tip on our Facebook page each day. Here is a summary of the week’s tips. Tip #1: Do not store your...
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Welcome Chen Hong and Zhang Huili
By Michele Brown Chen Hong, Director of Circulation at Tsinghua Library and Zhang Huili of the Special Collections Department at Peking University are the fourth pair of librarians from China to...
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by Michele Brown Preservation Week was created in 2010 by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to promote...
View ArticleCaring for your collections: tips from Preservation Week
by Michele Brown During Preservation Week (April 27 – May 3) we posted tips for preserving your home collections on Facebook. The best thing you can do for your materials is to provide them with a good...
View ArticlePreservation Week 2015: Ways to save your stuff.
by Michele Brown Last week, Tre Berney provided an excellent summary of AV preservation and related issues. What about books, papers, photographs and other memorabilia you’d like to save and pass...
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Don’t Lose Your Head!
by Michele Brown An oldie, but goodie: “to cut off one’s head, and to laie it in a platter, which the iugglers call the decollation of Iohn Baptist” from The discouerie of withcraft [The discovery of...
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Conservation of Piranesi’s bound etchings
by Michele Brown The 18-volume set of bound etchings by the Italian artist, architect and print maker, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is one of Cornell’s treasures. The Cornell set contains...
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Conservation of Piranesi bound etchings: treatment
by Michele Brown In my previous post, I described the overall condition of Cornell’s set of bound Piranesi engravings. Now, let’s look at the treatment of these volumes. Objectives: The usual...
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