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Online Resources

 

Newsletters and Blogs

Library of Congress Digital Preservation News and Newsletter

E-conservation Magazine

Getty Conservation Institute Bulletin

Archival Products Newsletter

The Book Arts Web & Bonefolder Newsletter

Hand Papermaking

Preservation & Conservation Administration News (see links to many preservation-related blogs)

Thompson Conservation Lab (Technology of the Medieval Book)

 

YouTube

Conservation at the Library of Virginia (see also the LibraryofVa channel)

How to clean surface dirt (see also "molly1216" channel)

Making books is fun! (1947 Encyclopedia Britannica Film)

Preservation of Pop Up and Movable Books (UF Libraries)

 

Exhibits

VCU Libraries Digital Collections

Under Covers: The Art and Science of Book Conservation

Library of Congress American Memory Project

Keeping Our Word: Preserving Information Across the Ages An on-line exhibit from the University of Iowa Libraries

Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930 An on-line exhibit from The University of Alabama

 

Time Capsules

Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute

 

Lectures

Smithsonian Topics in Museum Conservation Lectures

Yale Preservation Lecture Series

Library of Congress Topics in Preservation Series

National Archives Preservation Conferences

Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation

 

 

Patricia's Selected Talks and Presentations

Preserving the Past for the Future

How to Protect Your Library and Its Books

 

Organizations

American Institute for Conservation

Virginia Conservation Association

Guild of Bookworkers

 

Bibliophily

Carl Sagan at the Great Library of Alexandria (YouTube, 10:32)

A 3-D Panorama (this must be heaven)

Booklove by Jerry Stern

What a Library Means to Me by Adam Wilson

Book Curses

A Brief History of Paper - by Patricia Palmer Selinger

Girl Scouts Book Arts Badge


 

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