The UCLA Library Preservation Department is offering a conservation pre-program internship for qualified students who are applying for Masters-level training in conservation. This internship will provide experience to pre-program students or individuals currently in graduate level conservation programs in conservation decision making, treatment and documentation for library and archival collections. The conservation intern will work under the supervision of the collections conservator to perform repair or make enclosures for materials selected from the collections. Relevant literature will be reviewed prior to conservation treatment and all projects will be documented.
Application deadline is May 7, 2013.
A vandalized library book from YRL’s open stacks receives special treatment at the Conservation Lab
A special report from Conservation Technician Wil Lin.
A scanned etching of Winchester Cathedral from “Views of the Cathedral and Churches of Wales, with Descriptions” by John Chessell Buckler, London : John Nichols and Son, 1822.
At the Library Conservation Center we regularly receive mutilated library materials–their incompleteness often the result of vandalism or theft. Such damage can range anywhere from a few missing leaves to entire chapters razored out of books. The former is easy to remedy with simple page replacements, but the loss or damage in the latter case can be so extensive as to make replacement or repair no longer viable. » Read the rest of this entry «
At the end of June, I left the humid cornfields of Iowa and headed west to spend the summer in sunny southern California. It is now almost September as I sit to reflect upon the past eight weeks that I have spent as an intern at the UCLA Library Conservation Center (LCC). The past two months have gone by quickly, but they have been an invaluable experience for me as I continue to look towards future graduate level study in conservation.
Frank Zappa discusses music in libraries! This clip is from an interview with Frank Zappa conducted on October 12, 1988 by Martin Perlich. Perlich, a writer, producer and distinguished broadcaster, hosted and produced the interview series ARF!! (Arts & Roots Forum) which aired daily on Los Angeles public radio. The show featured major cultural figures as well as dozens of arts figures. UCLA Library Special Collections holds the Martin Perlich Interviews 1965- Collection. A recent preservation reformatting project uncovered this aural gem: and there will plenty more to come in the near future!
I was sorting through a couple bins of damaged books from the Young Research Library yesterday and came across a 1957 edition of S.R. Ranganathan’s the Five Laws of Library Science (Madras, India: Madras Library Association, 1957). The half title page included the fabulous illustration above used by the Madras Library Association.
S.R. Ranganathan was a president of the Madras Library Association, but I don’t know if he was at the time this logo was designed or when the book was published. He also had a brilliant mind – one of the greatest in the library field ever. » Read the rest of this entry «
I wanted to share a video of a presentation that the Preservation Unit gave on February 15, 2012 to the UCLA Library Collections Council. While the video explains what the Preservation Unit does and introduces the major players, there has been a huge change since this presentation was given: our fearless leader Jacob Nadal has left UCLA Library for the Brooklyn Historical Society. While we are very sad about this, we are at least somewhat consoled by the very happy news that as of the beginning of April 2012, Dawn Aveline has joined the Preservation Department as Preservation Specialist. » Read the rest of this entry «
The UCLA Library Preservation Department is offering a conservation pre-program internship for qualified students who are applying for Masters-level training in conservation. This internship will provide experience to pre-program students or individuals currently in graduate level conservation programs in conservation decision making, treatment and documentation for library and archival collections. The conservation intern will work under the supervision of the collections conservator to perform repair or make enclosures for materials selected from the collections. Relevant literature will be reviewed prior to conservation treatment and all projects will be documented.
I had the pleasure of speaking with a class taught by Jean-François Blanchette last week. It was such a good experience that I’m getting two posts out of it, in fact. In this one, I want to give some scope to an idea that I mentioned to them in passing. It’s become a standard part of my fundamentals of digital preservation teaching and I think it’s time to give it some air here on the web.
It’s a commonplace to say that we can’t think of digital preservation in the same way we do paper preservation. As someone who thinks about both of these things every day, I contend that the opposite may be true. I find it useful to think about all preservation efforts within a shared theoretical framework and then try to identify the specific technical knowledge required to make that framework sit up and stay forever.
