Valued preservation & conservation colleagues: I am debating a full-fledged survey, but before I travel down the path of Institutional Review Board Approval for a survey, etc, I thought an informal query might be useful. We at the University of Illinois Libraries are considering a more 'standardized' approach to how we treat scrapbooks in our conservation lab. While each treatment is always evaluated based on the usual variety of factors (research value, aesthetic value, condition, exhibition potential, etc etc) we have found that our curatorial expectations for the level of treatment these objects should receive vary greatly and we think it would be useful to establish a baseline for 'minimal treatment', 'standard treatment approaches', and 'exceptional treatments' or the like.
Does ANYBODY out there have such treatment approaches for scrapbooks, either in writing, or in practice (even sorta)? Any help or thoughts would be much appreciated! Jennifer ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ Jennifer Hain Teper Professor and Head, Preservation Services University of Illinois Libraries Room 425 1408 W. Gregory Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 217.244.5689 jh...@illinois.edu<mailto:jh...@illinois.edu> ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to consdistlist-le...@cool.conservation-us.org Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
