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September 2020

Pandemic Preservation Projects

Preservation Services staff have been working from home on projects ranging from transcription to those using specialized handskills.

Directly and indirectly supporting Harvard’s massive effort to support online research, teaching, and learning spurred by the pandemic, the staff of Harvard Library Preservation Services has been working from home on many different projects over the past few months, some contributing to Library-wide and broader projects, like transcription, and others that are unique to specialties within Preservation Services. Here is a selection of...

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A Remote Start during the Pandemic

by Amanda Maloney, Special Collections Conservator at the Weissman Preservation Center

I began my position as Special Collections Conservator for the Harvard Libraries “at” the Weissman Preservation Center on March 23rd, 2020, but I did not step foot into the labs until August 10th, 2020! Conservation is a discipline that relies on close and thorough examinations of collection objects, looking at them under magnification and in various types of light. Getting a sense for the physical feel, and even smell, of an object can tell the trained conservator a lot about its past and...

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