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Stjopka Collages Revealed

By Laura Berenger The collage artworks by Stjopka (born 1956) present a very detailed world and an imagination that is adventurous, historical, tender, macabre,...
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Conservation Adaption of the Sewn Board Binding Structure

By Karissa Muratore As the new Conservation Resident at Northwestern University Libraries, and after having spent the previous six or so months in quarantine...
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No Cookies, But Plenty of Crumbs: Photo Albums of the Girl Guides of Brittany

By Nicole Dobrowolski, conservation technician American Girl Scouts are mostly known for the cookies they sell, but their fellow scouting groups do not necessarily...
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Special Treatment: the care of African language books

For decades, the Herskovits Library of African Studies has been collecting specific genres of books that are in African languages. Some are in widely...
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Archives Month: Archival Processing

It’s National Archives Month! But you knew that, right? Chicago Collections and the Chicago Area Archivists have adopted the theme of “Hidden Stories” for...
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Seeing in “4D”: Bucky Fuller’s manifesto & conservation decision-making

Conservators do their best to inflict as little change as possible on the items they treat. Sometimes this rule is straightforward; at other times,...
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