Rabbits and lattes and steaks, oh my! Hear from Mindy Moeller, Conservation Technician at Parks Library, about some of the more unusual types of damage we’ve seen in our collections.
Preservation Week 2023 – Ask us anything
To celebrate Preservation Week, we invited our community to ask us preservation questions that will be answered during the week…
Welcome Lisa!
In January of this year we welcomed a new conservator to the Preservation Lab! Lisa studied traditional bookbinding at North…
Learning to Work in Digital Preservation
Our 2021 Lennox intern, Chris Lyons, worked in a fully remote environment for six months, while bagging Iowa State Library’s…
Bag Weights on a Budget
Some time ago I wrote a post about covering the lab’s shedding bag weights in heavy weight Hollytex. My current…
Library and Archives Preservation 