| Connie Brooks/Maria Grandinette Preventive Preservation |
August 7, 1.00-3.30 |
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| Are You Preventing Preservation?
Have you dismissed preservation as prohibitively expensive? Annoyingly esoteric? " Nice" but completely optional? The icing on the cake? If so, you may be preventing preservation! Preservation is a core library activity so linked with our on-going ability to serve patrons that the terms "preservation and access" are commonly twined together. Preventive preservation is a philosophy and strategy that takes a collection-wide approach to collection care. Its methodology is straightforward and pragmatic yielding tangible results and offering a way for every library to participate in preservation. This session will introduce students to the philosophy of and the power behind preventive preservation. The session will be followed by a tour of Stanford University Libraries Conservation Lab. |
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Connie Brooks currently is the head of Stanford University Libraries' Preservation Department, where she is privileged to work with some of the most innovative people in the field of preservation. Connie began her preservation career over twenty years ago by training as a book conservator with Don Etherington and Craig Jensen at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. A Mellon internship at The New York Public Library initiated her into preservation administration, and she became the first coordinator of the New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials before coming to Stanford eleven years ago. |
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