Preservation Week Panel Discussion on Public Digital Collections of Conservation Treatment Documentation

For Preservation Week 2024, Duke University Libraries will host a virtual panel discussion about Public Digital Collections of Conservation Treatment Documentation on Thursday May 2 at 11 am EDT. Conservation representatives from four institutions (The British Museum, The Preservation Lab (Cincinnati, Ohio), Duke University Libraries, and Stanford Libraries) will share their experiences in building and sharing their institutions’ digital collections of conservation treatment documentation. Panelists will introduce their collections and discuss topics such as digital preservation of treatment records, metadata creation, linking to catalog records and finding aids, and potential privacy and copyright issues. 

Example of photographic treatment documentation. This is a detail of a fingerprint found on Thomas Jefferson correspondence under UVA fluorescence.

The free webinar will take place at 11 am Eastern Daylight Time (8 am Pacific Daylight Time/ 4 pm British Summer Time) and will last 60-70 minutes. The panel will be recorded and the video will be shared with registered attendees upon request.

To register, use this link:

https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocOipqD4sEtNIKDJnrtY_5Q6886vPK-gw#/registration

Additional information:

Host: Beth Doyle, Preservation Officer; Leona B. Carpenter Senior Conservator; and Head, Conservation Services Department (she/her)

Panelists:

Louisa Burden, Head of Conservation, British Museum

Ashleigh Ferguson Schieszer, Book and Paper Conservator, Co-Lab Manager, (she/her)

Erin Hammeke, Senior Conservator for Special Collections, Duke University Libraries (she/they)

Ryan Lieu, Conservation Operations Coordinator, Stanford Libraries (he/him)

Collection Links:

British Museum

Duke University Libraries

Preservation Lab

Stanford Libraries

Click the image above to see the Preservation Lab’s online documentation repository

Ashleigh Ferguson Schieszer, Conservator [CHPL]