Core Preservation Administration Interest Group

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Purpose: Focuses on both broad and specific preservation issues in libraries. Topics encompass physical collections generally, and occasionally digital preservation issues. We serve academic, public, special, and other types of libraries.

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This interest group is part of Core's Preservation Section.

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Preservation Week: free webinars from the Library of Congress!

  • 1.  Preservation Week: free webinars from the Library of Congress!

    Posted Apr 14, 2021 10:54 AM

    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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