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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...

How to Transport Oversized Materials
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...

Caring for Collections at Harvard
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...

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

Vast digitizing project will put Harvard’s colonial archives online
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...