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Preservation in a Pandemic – and Beyond By Harvard Library Communications Office | October 2020

October 29, 2020

Preservation Services has existed in some form at Harvard Library for over 300 years; its staff work to maintain, protect, and repair library collections, as well as develop and share best practices for preservation and conservation. 2020 has been a...

BRENDA BERNIER, PRESERVATION SERVICES DIRECTOR AND MALLOY-RABINOWITZ PRESERVATION LIBRARIAN.

Pandemic Preservation Projects

September 30, 2020

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...

Preserving the Future: Harvard’s Weissman Center focusing on its next 20 years

June 25, 2020

Twenty years ago, you might have found Debora Mayer at her worktable in Harvard’s campus center, bent over a fragile 17th-century drawing. She would be carefully marking a photocopy of the drawing, recording each place the original document had been...

Guarding the dazzle of the past

April 16, 2017

How to Transport Oversized Materials

November 06, 2019

The Transport of Oversized Materials Task Group presented findings to the Harvard Library community. Attendees looked at oversized carts and trucks, now available to any Harvard library through a shared equipment program. See the blogpost and Transport of...

Preservation Services Joins Open Preservation Foundation

November 05, 2019

See the Harvard Library press release!

Caring for Collections at Harvard

June 10, 2019

Caring for Collections presenters On May 4, 2019, conservation and preservation experts from across Harvard’s libraries and museums presented research and technical work covering a variety of disciplines. Here are summaries of some of the talks. (Right...

Weissman Preservation Center Opens Its Doors

April 25, 2019

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

Group discusses conservation of botanical drawings

Shakespeare: His Collected Works—January 19–April 23, 2016

December 23, 2015

Conservators at the Weissman Preservation Center have been busy preparing for Houghton’s upcoming exhibition, Shakespeare: His Collected Works, which marks the 400th anniversary of the playwright’s death and opens January 19th.

Black Friday 1948: The First Polaroid “Instant” Camera Sells Out

November 23, 2016

A major exhibit about the formative years of Polaroid Corporation, drawn from the extensive Polaroid Archives donated to Baker Library in 2006, includes a tribute to the revolutionary Polaroid Land Camera that brought "instant photography" to the masses...

Harvard’s Find of a Colonial Map of New Jersey Is a Reminder of Border Wars

January 02, 2016

A Harvard librarian has uncovered a long-lost document from those tangled disputes: a hand-drawn map that may be the earliest surviving one showing New Jersey’s northern border where it is today.

Vast digitizing project will put Harvard’s colonial archives online

January 31, 2016

Harvard University has launched a project to digitize almost half a million items from its 17th and 18th century archives – the largest digitizing effort the university has ever undertaken. The letters, journals, documents and drawings tell the story not...

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