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"Why Aren't You Wearing Gloves?"

September 06, 2017 05:48 PM
Posted on September 6, 2017 by the Conservators
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Dealing with Mold in Your Collections

August 23, 2017 03:56 PM
David Fairchild, an American botanist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries wrote about mold in his book, The World Was My Garden (1938, p. 55).
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Lighting Rooms Where Art and Artifacts are Displayed

June 27, 2017 06:32 PM
How light affects art and artifacts is one of the most difficult preservation concepts to grasp. As a result, a lot of misconceptions about how to avoid light damage have arisen. In this post, I hope to simplify information about light damage and how to avoid it. I will discuss four factors you should consider when dealing with how light affects your collection items:
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Why Should You Keep Your Original Documents, Even If They’ve Been Digitized?

February 10, 2017 06:38 PM
History documents the world we live in, provides truth we can learn from, and allows us to maintain a memory of our culture. Without history, we lose the ability to learn from our past and are more likely to make mistakes in the future. Most good history derives itself from original source documents. As such, it is worthwhile, where possible, to save the original source documents in their original form.
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