Nylink

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Check-in begins at 8:30 a.m.
Nylink Offices
Albany, New York

Canceled

Collections care looks at holdings and stacks maintenance on a more detailed level. The nature of materials and agents of deterioration are reviewed, programs in environmental monitoring and pest management are discussed, and examples of enclosures are analyzed. Students also learn how to identify priority collections and discuss the importance of staff and user education and creating written reading room policies and processing guidelines. Students will participate in basic collections care activities such as handling oversize materials and practicing safe ways of retrieving and shelving books and boxes.

This workshop is designed for staff and volunteers who are involved in libraries, archives, historical societies, or other cultural institutions with primarily bound materials and are ready to start implementing aspects of their preservation plans.

Presenter:

Donia Conn, Northeast Document Conservation Center

Donia Conn was introduced to bookbinding through a required art class at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. While a Ph. D. student in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, she started working with Jim Dast in the library’s book repair department. She earned her MLIS with Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the University of Texas-Austin. Donia has interned with Tony Cains at Trinity College, Dublin and J. Frank Mowery at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and has worked as a rare book and paper conservator in academic institutions across the US. Donia has also presented several preservation, conservation and disaster planning and recovery workshops throughout the Northeast. She is currently Field Services Representative at the Northeast Document Conservation Center.

Founded in 1973, the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) is the largest nonprofit, regional conservation center in the United States, specializing in treatment of paper-based materials. Its services include paper, book, and photograph conservation; preservation microfilming; photograph duplication; digitization of photographs and other visual materials; preservation education, workshops, and conferences; surveys and consulting; and disaster assistance. NEDCC’s mission is to improve the conservation efforts of libraries, archives, historical organizations, museums, and other repositories; to provide the highest quality services to institutions without in-house conservation facilities or those that seek specialized expertise; and to provide leadership in the preservation and conservation fields.

Registration

Special rate for Museum Association of NY and Upstate History Alliance members: $200 if you pay by credit card.

Save 20% - Register for this event and Preservation Holdings Maintenance (6/10/08). You just select the option in the form below and you will be registered for both events at the discounted rate.

Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch and all materials.

Please note you have two ways to register, by credit card (VISA and MasterCard only) or by having your institution billed if you are a Nylink member.

Please register by April 28, 2008.

Related conferences:

• Preservation Holdings Maintenance, June 10, 2008

Registration closed - Event canceled