INFO-634 Conservation Lab

3 Credits

• INFO-634-01

  Wednesday

  6:30 pm – 9:20 pm

  Manhattan - W14, 705A

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    Slava Polishchuk

It is essential for today’s archival professional to have a comprehensive understanding of techniques and tools available to them to preserve the unique holdings under their management. Working in tandem with the conservator in the library’s conservation laboratory, students will handle, analyze, and treat original material-thereby gaining invaluable hands-on experience. Students will be introduced to the varied treatments of paper based materials available to protect an insure that historic records survive for the generations of researchers.