Preservation Awareness Project
Disasters & Quiet Catastrophes: Prevention and Recovery

Quiet Threats

This workshop will explore general environmental issues, in particular temperature and humidity, and their potential effects on pest and mold growth.  Attendees will learn how to create a collections survey, use a Preservation Environment Monitor (PEM), interpret the results of environmental monitoring, and apply the results. Each participant will receive a PEM. This workshop is limited to 25 participants.

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Presenters:

Michele Brown is head of Book Conservation at Cornell University, and a graduate of Fordham University. She received a certificate in Hand Bookbinding and Restoration from the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, England in 1977. She has been involved in book conservation since 1977, and has been a contract conservator for Harvard University, Dartmouth College, the Boston Athenaeum, and the University of Vermont, as well as a book conservator at the Boston Public Library, before taking over the management of the book conservation operation at Cornell in 1995. She has taught numerous bookbinding classes and conducted many workshops on care and handling of library materials, disaster preparedness, and mold remediation. She is a member of the Guild of Book Workers, and the American Institute for Conservation (AIC).

Patricia Fox is the Assistant Book Conservator at CUL.  She has participated in several large scale conservation projects at Cornell, including treating the French Revolution Collection, the Anti-Slavery and Civil War Collection and the Native American Collection.  She has been active in the many training programs that occur in the lab.  She is a member of the Guild of Book Workers.

Disasters & Quiet Catastrophes Series: Prevention and Recovery Related Sessions