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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 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.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.