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Welcome Chen Hong and Zhang Huili
By Michele Brown Chen Hong, Director of Circulation at Tsinghua Library and Zhang Huili of the Special Collections Department at Peking University are the fourth pair of librarians from China to...
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“Remembering Lincoln at Gettysburg”
by Michele Brown In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, Cornell University’s Division of Rare and Manuscripts Collection has mounted an exhibition of Civil War manuscripts and...
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Speaking of Sex
by Michele Brown The Conservation Unit has been busy treating a variety of materials for Speaking of Sex, the new exhibit opening February 14 in the Hirshland Exhibition Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch...
View ArticlePreservation Week: Pass it on
by Michele Brown Preservation Week was created in 2010 by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), to promote...
View ArticleCaring for your collections: tips from Preservation Week
by Michele Brown During Preservation Week (April 27 – May 3) we posted tips for preserving your home collections on Facebook. The best thing you can do for your materials is to provide them with a good...
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Mystery solved
by Michele Brown Recently, “Ask a Librarian” received the following query: “Hi, I have a question about the 1579 edition of Hill’s “profitable instruction of the perfite ordering of bees”, which is...
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Re-housing the Thirteenth Amendment
by Michele Brown The 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery and involuntary servitude was formally passed by Congress on January 31, 1865 and ratified by the states December 6, 1865.(1) Cornell University...
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Parchment-making
by Michele Brown Parchment is a tough, long-lasting writing and book covering material used historically for important documents and still used for the transcription of some religious and government...
View ArticlePreservation Week 2015: Ways to save your stuff.
by Michele Brown Last week, Tre Berney provided an excellent summary of AV preservation and related issues. What about books, papers, photographs and other memorabilia you’d like to save and pass...
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Luce preservation training, part 2.
by Michele Brown The next phase of the Luce intern training program has begun. Chen Zhimei from Xiamen University and Zhang Chunmei from Fudan University recently finished four weeks of basic...
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Conservation treatment of Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio
by Michele Brown Cornell University Library is commemorating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with a series of digital vignettes highlighting Cornell’s Shakespeare collection. Earlier this...
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Don’t Lose Your Head!
by Michele Brown An oldie, but goodie: “to cut off one’s head, and to laie it in a platter, which the iugglers call the decollation of Iohn Baptist” from The discouerie of withcraft [The discovery of...
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Conservation of Piranesi’s bound etchings
by Michele Brown The 18-volume set of bound etchings by the Italian artist, architect and print maker, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) is one of Cornell’s treasures. The Cornell set contains...
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Conservation of Piranesi bound etchings: treatment
by Michele Brown In my previous post, I described the overall condition of Cornell’s set of bound Piranesi engravings. Now, let’s look at the treatment of these volumes. Objectives: The usual...
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