AIC Virtual Meeting 2020 Recap (Harvard Library Preservation Services)

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Please join us on March 15^th at 1:00 for some reflections and selected highlights from last year’s American Institute for Conservation (AIC) meeting. The theme was Conservation: Reactive and Proactive and it was AIC’s first “virtual” meeting. Despite some technical hiccups, it helped to connect the conservation community together and provided some great new information, strategies, and thought provoking talks we’d like to share with you. A tentative schedule is provided below:

Nora Dempsey: General observations about the presentation platforms used

Lauren Telepak: BPG Library Collection Conservation Discussion Group

Debra Cuoco: Joannie Bottkol: Sociopolitical Flux, Conservation, and Difficult Heritage

Karen Walter: Jan Burandt: Paper – It’s More Than That: A Syntax for Excruciatingly Thorough Descriptions

Debora Mayer: Carien van Aubel and Olivia van Rooijen: Plastics You Know: The Plastics Identification Tool and Collection Surveys

Elena Bulat:

• Diana Diaz and Heather Brown: The Niepce Heliograph, at the Harry Ransom Center
• Saori Kawasumi Lewis: Removal of aged Filmoplast® P 90 tape from inkjet prints
• Sarah Freeman, Nathan Daly, Lynn Lee, Michelle Sullivan, and Karen Hellman: Deconstructing the creation of Daguerre’s dessins-fumées: a photographic process or just smoke and mirrors?

Amanda Maloney:

• Melissa Tedone & Dr. Rosie Grayburn: Arsenic & Old Bookcloth: The Safe Handling, Treatment, & Storage of Victorian-Era Cloth Case Bindings
• Mary French: Hari Today and (Not) Gone Tomorrow: The Conservation of a 19th Century Hair Album
• Sarah Norris & Katie Boodle: Shiny, Lined, & Brown: Building Conservation Context for Harry Jander’s Document Restorations