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Partial Leather Rebacks: A Case Study
Today’s blog describes a book conservation treatment informed by a resource from our Conservation Lab’s library of reference materials. The Conservation Lab’s library has hundreds of resources on...
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Treatment of a 19th C. hydrographical map
The Conservation Lab mentors students interested in library and archives conservation and their conservation projects are great learning opportunities for us all. Margaret Canfield, a Cornell...
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Preservation Week: Photo-Albums and Scrapbooks
j.m. iacchei Today’s blog reports on the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) workshop Your Photographic Scrapbook: Identification and Preservation and is the 4th in our...
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An Update on Conservation Lab Staffing, Service Priorities, and Current...
News Over the last year and a half, a major effort was undertaken by the Cornell Library Conservation Lab to clarify roles, responsibilities, and priorities, the result of which has gone into effect...
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Rehousing the Dora Erway Doll Collection | A custom-fitting
J.M. Iacchei Thank you to Eileen Keating, University Records Manager, RMC, for proving the information on the history of the Dora Erway dolls included in this blog post. A selection of dolls from the...
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Conservation of Piranesi’s bound etchings
by Michele Brown The 18-volume set of bound etchings by the Italian artist, architect and print maker, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is one of Cornell’s treasures. The Cornell set contains...
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Many ways to do the same thing
Basilica of the Sacred Heart,University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana I was fortunate to attend the Conservation of Leather Bookbindings workshop sponsored by AIC/FAIC (the American Institute for...
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Conservation of Piranesi bound etchings: treatment
by Michele Brown In my previous post, I described the overall condition of Cornell’s set of bound Piranesi engravings. Now, let’s look at the treatment of these volumes. Objectives: The usual...
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“Who fixes these, anyway?”
Michele Brown at the Great Wall of China in 2014 “Who fixes these, anyway?” That was Michele’s Brown’s question. She was a recent graduate of Fordham University who studied English Literature. She...
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An Equestrian Zusetsu
J.M.IaccheiCornell University Library curators build our rare and distinctive collections to enhance strengths, expand subject areas, and respond to instruction and research needs. Laurent Ferri,...
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