Northeast Document Conservation Center — Education: Webinars: Introduction

Northeast Document Conservation Center — Education: Webinars: Introduction: "Education

WEBINARS

NEDCC Preservation Webinars

NEDCC offers live online webinars on a wide variety of topics that can help institutions preserve their collections.

Group rates are available for webinars for groups of three or more individuals from a single institution who register at the same time ($70 each for early-bird registration, $85 each for regular registration) for the same webinar. For more information see our Webinar Participation Policy. If you are interested in registering a group, please contact Kim O'Leary at 978-470-1010 ext. 226, or email koleary@nedcc.org.

All | This Month | Next Two Months | Next Three Months
July 19, 2011
Care and Handling of Scrapbooks

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$95 / $80 early-bird registration (June 28, 2011)
Registration deadline: July 18, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Beginner
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: Live online webinar

This live, online webinar will cover the issues to be addressed in order to provide the best level of care for scrapbook collections. The webinar introduces the structure of scrapbooks, types of materials commonly found in them, methods of attachment, and the implications for preservation and conservation. Low-cost, in-house preservation approaches are discussed
Who should attend?

This introductory webinar is designed for those new to library collections care or those with private or family collections.

REGISTER NOW
August 9, 2011
Pest Management

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$95 / $80 early-bird registration (July 19, 2011)
Registration deadline: August 8, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Beginner
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: Live online webinar

This live online webinar will cover the best practices for protecting against pest infestation and what to do if a problem with pests is identified. The common types of pests found in libraries, archives, and museums will be covered, along with their preferred environment.
Who should attend?

This webinar is designed for those who wish to know more about controlling pests in their institution.

REGISTER NOW
September 22, 2011
FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITIZATION: Introduction to Image Capture

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$95 / $80 early-bird registration (September 1, 2011)
Registration deadline: September 21, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Beginner
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: Live online webinar

This webinar provides an introduction to the terminology and equipment used to digitally reformat your collections. Best practices for image creation and equipment selection will be covered, and project planning and metadata will be introduced.
Who should attend?

This introductory webinar is designed for those new to the digitization of collections or those with private or family collections who are interested in having a better understanding of how to create the most stable and sustainable digital copies.

REGISTER NOW
September 27, 2011
FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITIZATION: Digital Project Planning

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$95 / $80 early-bird registration (September 6, 2011)
Registration deadline: September 26, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Beginner
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: Live online webinar

This webinar explores the issues that cultural institutions face when planning digitization projects. Participants will learn the basic steps necessary for the planning and successful completion of digitization projects.
Who should attend?

This introductory webinar is designed for those new to the digitization of collections who are interested in learning how to plan for projects of any size.

REGISTER NOW
October 18, 2011
FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITIZATION: Metadata

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$95 / $80 early-bird registration (September 27, 2011)
Registration deadline: October 17, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Beginner
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: Live online webinar

This webinar offers an introduction to key metadata concepts, with a focus on understanding the different metadata schema. By the end of the webinar, participants will understand the basic types of metadata and the importance of metadata in terms of access, interoperability, and longevity
Who should attend?

This introductory webinar is designed for those who work in cultural institutions who are digitizing collections and need a basic understanding of metadata.

REGISTER NOW
October 25, 2011
FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITIZATION: Sustainable Digital Collections

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$95 / $80 early-bird registration (October 4, 2011)
Registration deadline: October 24, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Beginner to intermediate
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: Live online webinar

This webinar offers an introduction on how to sustain the digital collections you have worked hard to create. Passive and active approaches will be covered as well as the overall concept of lifecycle management for digital collections.
Who should attend?

This webinar is designed for those who work in cultural institutions and those with personal digital collections who would like to learn more about how to maintain digital collections into the future.

REGISTER NOW
November 15, 2011
FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITIZATION: Handling Collection Materials During Digitization

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$95 / $80 early-bird registration (October 25, 2011)
Registration deadline: November 14, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Beginner
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: Live online webinar

Digital reformatting improves access to your collections but shouldn’t endanger the physical condition of the originals. This webinar will introduce participants to safe handling techniques for the digitization of collection materials. Techniques include:

Removing fasteners
Handling fragile bound volumes
Handling very brittle materials
Handling photographs and negatives.

Appropriate digitization equipment will be discussed as will questions to ask vendors when forming a new working relationship.
Who should attend?

This introductory webinar is designed for those who handle any paper-based collection material that is being digitally reformatted.

REGISTER NOW
November 17, 2011
FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITIZATION: Reformatting Scrapbooks

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$95 / $80 early-bird registration (October 27, 2011)
Registration deadline: November 16, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Intermediate
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: Live online webinar

Scrapbooks require special planning for reformatting. This webinar will introduce participants to the unique issues that they need to consider when planning microfilming or digitization projects for scrapbooks.
Who should attend?

This webinar is for those who are planning to reformat scrapbook collections. Attendees should already have a very good understanding of the care and handling of scrapbooks. (See the Care and Handling of Scrapbooks webinar on 19 June 2011.)

REGISTER NOW
November 22, 2011
FUNDAMENTALS OF DIGITIZATION: Digital Disaster Planning

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$95 / $80 early-bird registration (November 1, 2011)
Registration deadline: November 21, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Beginner
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: Live online webinar

Disaster plans are just as important for digital collections as they are for analog collections. This webinar will introduce the elements of a disaster plan for digital collections and the issues to be considered when conducting a risk assessment.
Who should attend?

This introductory webinar is designed for those who are interested in working on a disaster plan for their digital collections.

REGISTER NOW
January 12, 2012
Preservation 101

2:00 pm Eastern (2 hrs)
$600
Registration deadline: December 30, 2011
Maximum class size: 24
Class level: Beginner to intermediate
Instructor: Donia Conn, NEDCC Workshop Program and Reference Coordinator
Location: 6-month online facilitated course - Asynchronous study plus 11 live online webinars

This semester-equivalent course covers the issues and technologies needed to design, implement, and manage an effective preservation program for documents, books, photographs, other paper-based materials, as well as digital collections. Course topics include: an introduction to preservation; the deterioration of paper, film, and electronic media; the building and environment; collections care; reformatting (digital and analog) and conservation treatment; disaster planning; and building a preservation program.

Session assignments are completed on a weekly basis. The 11 live webinars explore each of the course topics in depth and encourage an exchange of ideas. A class forum guides students who wish to pursue additional readings and provides an additional venue for class discussion as well as a help line between webinars.
Who should attend?

This course is tailored to librarians, archivists, town clerks, curators, and collections or records managers who have (at least) part-time responsibility for preservation of historical or special collections or of primary research materials or who are interested in preservation training for professional development. The course covers the preservation of materials including: books, manuscripts, records, photographs, ephemera, maps, other paper-based or documentary formats, audiovisual materials, and digital collections.

REGISTER NOW



- Inviata con Google Toolbar"

CBL-conservation-intern-Advert-2011.aspx (Oggetto application/pdf)

C'è una intership alla Chester Beatty Library in Irlanda. Per chi fosse interessato qui ci sono i dettagli.



CBL-conservation-intern-Advert-2011.aspx (Oggetto application/pdf): "- Inviata con Google Toolbar"

Workshop. L’impiego di gel ed enzimi nel restauro della carta

Padova, 17 settembre 2011, ore 9.30-17.00.

Workshop. L’impiego di gel ed enzimi nel restauro della carta

Docente: Paolo Cremonesi

N. 10 posti disponibili.

Costo: Euro 170 + IVA

Per informazioni e iscrizioni:

cfederici_at_tin.it

Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections | California Rare Book School

Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections | California Rare Book School: "Preservation Stewardship of Library Collections

Current faculty: Mark Roosa
Years taught: 2007 – 2011

Description: An introduction to the principles and practices of contemporary library preservation with an emphasis on building practical and well-balanced programs which promote the responsible stewardship of analog and digital collections. Topics to be covered include: the physical characteristics of library materials, factors affecting collections and control strategies, assessing needs and setting priorities, and development and management of program components. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of science in preservation, conservation, analog and digital reformatting, life-cycle management of digital content, and the exhibition of rare materials. Both theoretical and practical approaches to library preservation will be explored, as will strategies for aligning a library’s preservation program with institutional goals and priorities. Participants will visit select libraries, preservation departments, and laboratories in the Los Angeles area and will hear from leading preservation practitioners.

Requirements: In their personal statement, applicants should provide a brief description of their library or preservation experience, the nature of their interest in this course, and specific topics or issues they would like to see addressed.
Course History

2007: Mark Roosa teaches this course for the first time.

- Inviata con Google Toolbar"

patrimonio sos: in difesa dei beni culturali e ambientali

patrimonio sos: in difesa dei beni culturali e ambientali: "Il restauro dei libri
Maria Cristina Misiti* - Jolanda Bufalini
Unità 5/5/2011

*Maria Cristina Misiti Direttore ICPAL

Con riferimento all'articolo apparso sul Vs. giornale in data 10.4.2011, a firma della dr. Jolanda Bufalini e recante il titolo 'La lotta infinita dei restauratori del libro licenziati per Natale' (pag. 13), rilevo quanto segue a) nell'articolo citato viene sommariamente frettolosamente ricostruita una serie di fatti e circostanze interne all'Istituto e si attribuisce alla responsabilità di questa Direzione, e quindi del MiBAC, il presunto licenziamento di alcuni, collaboratori a contratto; nell'articolo, infatti, è erroneamente asserito che l'Istituto avrebbe iniziato una 'operazione tabula rasa' e vengono confusamente riportati dati e circostanze che - sia per le espressioni usate che per le modalità di comunicazione al pubblico di fatti che possono essere quantomeno travisati - potrebbero comportare un danno ingiusto tanto per l'Istituto che per il MiBAC stesso; b) nell'articolo si asserisce che l'Istituto avrebbe agevolato, nell'affidamento di alcuni incarichi, il sig. Paolo Crisostorni e si richiede '...una maggiore distanza fra ruoli pubblici ed interessi di famiglia'; anche in questo caso la circostanza riportata non è veritiera, e si rinvia alla documentazione attestante l'attribuzione di tali incarichi sia presso la Biblioteca di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte che presso l'Archivio di Stato di Roma
Maria Cristina Misiti

Punto a: i contratti di collaborazione sono stati interrotti prima della conclusione del progetto a cui erano legati anche gli effetti contrattuali
Punto b: nell'articolo non 'si asserisce che l'Istituto avrebbe agevolato', si solleva un problema di opportunità viste le funzioni dell'Icpal di 'consulenza, progettazione, verifica, collaudo' per i restauri che Archivi e biblioteche affidano anche a privati.
Jolanda Bufalini

- Inviata con Google Toolbar"

La lotta infinita dei restauratori del libro licenziati per Natale Quattro dei tredici lavoratori allontanati ... - l'Unità.it

La lotta infinita dei restauratori del libro licenziati per Natale Quattro dei tredici lavoratori allontanati ... - l'Unità.it: "La lotta infinita dei restauratori del libro licenziati per Natale Quattro dei tredici lavoratori allontanati il 1° gennaio dall'Icpal hanno impugnato il provvedimento. «Con buone probabilità di vincere la causa, ma questo però non vuol dire assunzione»

- Inviata con Google Toolbar"

Manuscript Collections in Egypt: Past Initiatives and Post-Revolution Challenges" Cheryl Porter

Manuscript Collections in Egypt: Past Initiatives and
   Post-Revolution Challenges"
       Cheryl Porter

Peggy Dow Helmerich Auditorium
Annie May Swift Hall
Northwestern University
Monday, June 20, 2011
3pm

Cheryl Porter will discuss her recent work in Egypt, including her
management of a Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation (TIF) project to
survey Islamic manuscripts at the National Library and Archives of
Egypt and other cultural institutions in Cairo. Ms Porter will
discuss the goals of the TIF project, the development of the survey
instrument, and provide a status update on the project. Ms Porter
will also discuss recent efforts to address conservation training
and education in Egypt, particularly in light of recent political
events.  The lecture will have broad appeal to conservators,
scholars of Islamic thought, and those interested in the current
political situation in Egypt and its effect on cultural
institutions.

The lecture will be held in the Peggy Dow Helmerich Auditorium of
the recently renovated Annie May Swift Hall, located next to the
University Library.  To learn more about the extraordinary
renovation of this historic Northwestern landmark, please visit

   http://www.communication.northwestern.edu/ams-photos/>

Reception: Guests are invited to a reception in Deering Library
immediately following the lecture. Arabic manuscripts from the
Melville Herskovits Library of African Studies
http://digital.library.northwestern.edu/arbmss/> will be on
view, and conservators from Northwestern University Library will be
available to answer questions about a survey of the manuscript
collection which is currently in progress.

Biography

   Cheryl Porter has been Director of the Montefiascone Project, an
   international program of conservation training and education
   located in Montefiascone, Italy, since its inception in 1988.
   After graduating from Camberwell College (University of the
   Arts, London), Cheryl worked at the University College London
   Paintings Analysis Unit, analyzing the use of pigments in
   paintings and manuscripts. From 1992-2006, she worked as a
   freelance conservator, mostly for universities and other
   cultural institutions. Cheryl was Manager of Conservation and
   Preservation at the Dar al-Kutub (National Library and Archives
   of Egypt) and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation from 2007-2010.
   She has published many articles concerning color in manuscripts
   and has lectured in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and
   throughout Europe.

Registration is required and may be completed by sending an email to
Ann Duncan-Gibbs at a-gibbs [at] northwestern__edu or by contacting Ms
Duncan-Gibbs at 847-491-7599.

letter to a young bookbinder, 1889: don’t go into this trade! « jeff peachey

Potrebbe essere tradotta con lettera a un giovane restauratore di libri... Se non altro vuol dire che i problemi ce li portiamo dietro da molto tempo.


letter to a young bookbinder, 1889: don’t go into this trade! « jeff peachey: "jeff peachey
letter to a young bookbinder, 1889: don’t go into this trade!

- Inviata con Google Toolbar"

in-situ book conservation fixture « jeff peachey

se a qualcuno avanzassero 750 $

in-situ book conservation fixture
Posted in book conservation, conservation tools and equipment, conservation treatment by Jeff Peachey on April 19, 2011


A jig guides a tool, whereas a fixture supports the workpiece – in this case is a bound book. Increasingly, much of a book conservator’s work involves working in-situ without disbinding a textblock. This fixture safely and securely supports the parts of the book not being worked on while treating pages. The idea for this fixture was originally developed by Raymond Jordan, Senior Book Conservator at Trinity College, Dublin (for an image of his version in use, see Preservation and Conservation in Small Libraries, ed. Hadgraft and Swift, 1994), with additional improvements by Chela Metzger, Conservator of Library Collections at Winterthur Museum, Delaware.
read more...
- Inviata con Google Toolbar"