The Summer of Preservation Education
The Preservation Department is gearing up for a big summer of education. In addition to the annual arrival of summer interns, we’re having a series of in-house classes for our career staff. I’m excited...
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Summer Internship First Impressions: Emilia Mahaffey
In the middle of June I began an internship with the preservation department at UCLA. The internship started the way all jobs do – with a lot of paper work. I began my morning with a trip to library HR...
View ArticleA Framework For Thinking About Preservation
I had the pleasure of speaking with a class taught by Jean-François Blanchette last week. It was such a good experience that I’m getting two posts out of it, in fact. In this one, I want to give some...
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The Cow of Plenty and the Five Laws of Library Science
I was sorting through a couple bins of damaged books from the Young Research Library yesterday and came across a 1957 edition of S.R. Ranganathan’s the Five Laws of Library Science (Madras, India:...
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Water Salvage Workshop
Books absorb water and expand. On Tuesday, March 19, I volunteered at the water salvage workshop put together by LAPNet (Los Angeles Area Preservation Network) and hosted by the University of Southern...
View ArticleSummer/Fall Internship
UCLA Library Conservation Center The UCLA Library Preservation Department is offering a conservation pre-program internship for qualified students who are applying for Masters-level training in...
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