Those book worms may prove useful after all! https://news.science360.gov/obj/video/40627abd-8e42-4f41-8f14-d097c39a8111/museum-sack-bearer-moth-specimens-generate-new-possibilities-dna-research…
Why join the International Institute for Conservation?…
Do you have brittle transparent papers in your collection that require conservation treatment? Because of the way they were manufactured, the preservation of transparency papers usually poses specific challenges. The fibers within the paper have typically been beaten to…
I discovered this nicely produced video on the manufacture of parchment. Parchment and vellum are paper’s predecessors. After stone tablets, they were a much more portable mode to record the written word. As you can see from this documentary,…
The following is a very interesting article from IIC regarding shipwrecked documents: “On 5th December 1940, the British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd.’s SS Gairsoppa left from the port of Calcutta, India to sail toward Britain. The cargo ship…
It was a hair-raising historical discovery. A shabby, leather-bound almanac from 1793 sat long forgotten on a shelf at Union College’s library in upstate Schenectady — until an archivist surveying some of the school’s collections plucked it from obscurity…
The following is another interesting video created by the conservation staff at the Library of Virginia. A collection of Thomas Jefferson’s executive papers had been laminated. Many of the documents contained wax seals, which required special care. The video…
When you are faced with disaster scenarios that threaten your book and paper-based collections, it is helpful to know how to respond and minimize the damage incurred to your precious artifacts. The following is a primer I have put…
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/epidemiology.html In June 2015, the Getty Conservation Institute convened a meeting at the Rothschild Foundation at Windmill Hill Archive on the Waddesdon Manor and Estate in Aylesbury, UK, to explore the possibilities of adapting an epidemiological approach to cultural…