The Library of Congress Preservation Directorate is excited to present a Topics in Preservation Series (TOPS) for Preservation Week 2021! We are hosting webinars every weekday of Preservation Week at 11am (EST). The five webinars will feature preservation related projects conducted at the Library. You can learn more and find the registration links on our webpage.
Preservation Meets Public Health: Enduring Lessons from Pandemic Planning
April 26, 11 a.m. EST
Jacob Nadal, Director for Preservation, will explain how Library staff used information from the REALM project in conjunction with public health guidance to develop safe operations for activities involving the Library's collections.
Collections Management Division: Restarting Operations During a Pandemic
April 27, 11 a.m. EST
Matthew Martin, Director of the Operations Division, will speak about how the Preservation Directorate's Collections Management Division prioritized its workload during the pandemic in light of limited on-site staff and the need to re-evaluate processes and procedures to ensure safety and efficiency.
Focus on Scientific Reference Samples: Center for Heritage Analytical Reference Materials (CHARM)
April 28, 11 a.m. EST
Fenella France, Chief of the Preservation Research and Testing Division, will discuss how having physical reference samples that replicate materials in the Library's collections allows staff to conduct destructive testing and accelerated aging, assess treatments and use the results to correlate physical and noninvasive test methods.
Librarians-in-Residence: Training the Next Generation
April 29, 11 a.m. EST
Adrija Henley, Chief of the Preservation Services Division, will talk about her division's hosting of three librarians-in-residence since 2018 and introduce librarians-in-residence, who will share their experiences.
Peek Inside the Lab: Two mini presentations
April 30, 11 a.m. EST
Alan Haley, a Senior Preservation Specialist, and Dan Paterson, a Senior Conservator, will discuss the conservation treatment and digitization of the "Yongle Dadian," a 16th-century manuscript encyclopedia comprising 11,095 volumes that record Chinese life and culture.
Leslie Long, a Senior Preservation Specialist in the Conservation Division, will focus on three important figures - John Feely, Sarah Wyman Whitman and Margaret Armstrong - who worked between 1870 and 1920, during the so-called golden age of book design, characterized by books published with beautiful covers for everyday buyers.
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