Conservation of rare books in the Stanford Libraries

From Stanford University’s Digital Library Blog

Conservation Services is delighted to announce our new collection in the SDR, Stanford University Libraries Conservation Services treatment documentation. Beginning this past summer, we began depositing treatment reports, photographs, and videos…

One recent innovation with the documentation we create has been to record videos where conservators discuss the condition of an item before treatment, pointing out what needs to be addressed. Then after the treatment we shoot another video where the conservator shows what they did to stabilize and repair the item. Several of these videos are now in our collection and can be viewed by anyone. Since this collection has now been indexed by DLSS, these videos and other documentation will be discoverable via SearchWorks. We’re currently working with colleagues in Special Collections and DLSS to further enhance this access.

Here are two examples of treatment videos and documentation:
Menorat Ha-maʼor, an 18th century Hebrew book bound in parchment http://purl.stanford.edu/jv402cb2554

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