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Item 2022 ALA-CORE National Binding Survey Report(2023-02-07) Doyle, Beth; Coulbourne, Mark; Brim, Richenda; Ellenburg-Kimmet, Joyce; Chapman, JoyceThe American Library Association (ALA) Core Preservation Administration Interest Group (PAIG) held a Symposium on the Future of Library Binding in 2022. Following the symposium, the ALA Core Library Binding Practices Survey Team (hereafter, “Team”) was convened to explore issues that arose during the symposium. The Team members volunteered to create a survey on current library binding practices to gain a better understanding of who is using library binding as a preservation and access method, how they are using such services, and the challenges that face the community.Item Collections Preservation HVAC Systems in Libraries, Archives and Museums(2021-11-17) Cameron, Chris; Coulbourne, MarkHeating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems play an integral role in libraries, archives, and museums. These systems help regulate our environments, filter pollutants, assist us in preserving our records, books, and artifacts and are now being called upon to help us decrease the chance of infection. Despite our dependence upon these systems there is little information given about them in our library and archival academic programs. This program will provide basic information about how HVAC systems function, the relationship between a properly functioning HVAC system and the long-term preservation of our collections, and ideas for advocating for a new or upgraded HVAC system.Item Music Binding Symposium(2024-04-16) Coulbourne, Mark; Norman, Kim; Carli, Alice; Quintilian, Steve; Foley, Michael; Shirts, Peter; Risseeuw, KatherineOn April 16th the ALA/Core Preservation Administrators Interest Group and the Music Library Association Preservation Committee met for an online symposium on the binding, preservation and care of music scores. We have the list of panel presenters below, and we discussed why we bind music scores, binding decision trees, formats and treatments (with examples), budgets and advocacy, as well as the latest news on commercial binding. There was time for Q&A along with numerous examples of music scores. Presenters included: Alice Carli - University of Rochester Michael Foley - University of California, Berkeley Dan Lopata - University of Rochester Steve Quintilian - University of Maryland, College Park Katie Risseeuw - Northwestern University Peter Shirts - Emory UniversityItem Preparing and Digitizing Brittle 19th and 20th Century Newspapers(Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, 2022-05) Coulbourne, Mark; Pike, Robin; Draper, BryanDigitizing brittle paper can be a difficult task that may cause tears and fractures, even when the material is carefully handled. Brittle paper in many formats can be found in archival collections. Bound newspapers in large, unwieldly, and deteriorating bindings pose a challenge for digitization by their size and number of pages. When charged with preparing late 19th- and early 20th-century brittle newspapers for digitization, the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries developed a new process that serves as an effective, time- and budget-conscious approach to stabilizing brittle paper while preparing it for digitization. Those tasked with preservation and digitization can use a minimal amount of archival-quality tape, PhotoTex™ paper, and polyester folders, to enable extremely brittle newspaper to withstand the turns, flips, and movements required for optimal digital capture. Project staff can then select appropriate digitization and digital preservation standards available through their institution or partnerships to ensure a one-time digitization process, ideally using an overhead digitization setup to facilitate minimal pressure on the brittle pages. Lastly, the repository can store stabilized original newspapers in perpetuity in an organized and space efficient manner.Item Reunited and It Feels So Good?: Reunifying the Baltimore News American Collection(2021-10-08) Graham, Susan; Coulbourne, MarkThe Baltimore News American was a newspaper that operated in Baltimore for nearly two hundred years and closed in 1986. After closing the Hearst Corporation donated the photographs, and clippings morgue to the University of Maryland, College Park while the bulk of the photographic negatives were donated to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. In 2018 an agreement was reached that would reunite the collection in College Park. Moving the photographic negatives would prove to be more complex than initially thought. The collection at UMBC consisted of approximately 48,000 glass plate and acetate negatives that were housed together in the basement of the Albin O. Kuhn Library.Item Utilizing Existing Infrastructure to Enhance the Archivist/Conservator Relationship(2022-10-21) Coulbourne, Mark; Greenho, BethanyConservation records are an important part of the life cycle of an archival object. The records can be composed of digital images of the before/during/after and treatment reports that reflect exactly what was done to an object in the course of conservation intervention. The Preservation Department in the University of Maryland Libraries have extensive records of archival projects that consist of digital images, treatment reports, budgets and time outlays. This project was conceived as a way to ensure that curators and archivists have immediate access to accurate and detailed conservation records that can be shared with researchers and to be used as a guide for future conservation projects.