Preservation Services is an enthusiastic contributor to Harvard’s J-Term, offering a variety of workshops to...

Every November the Dept. of Student Services, Harvard Graduate School of Design call for instructors to teach short seminars during the first...

On November 6, 2019, the Transport of Oversized Materials Task Group (TOMTG) presented findings and recommendations to the Harvard Library community at an event in Lamont Forum Room. After the presentation,...

At its annual open house, Weissman Preservation Center staff members shared their work with visitors from across Harvard.

Fans of comic books will go to great lengths to keep their collections in top condition—storing comics in clear plastic or vinyl bags, buying an additional copy of an issue (reading one and leaving the other untouched), even sending away comics to be sealed in hard plastic shells. Yet, as Chloe Houseman, an intern in the Weissman Preservation Center’s paper conservation lab, recently explained at a presentation on the preservation of comics, most single-issue comic books were not made to last.

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