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  1. View from the grounds of a cathedral. A few people wander around the lawn outside of the structure.

    Field Books Go to Oxford!

    • Date: October 23, 2018
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See how our conservation staff are sharing treatment ideas with colleagues across the world.

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  3. Archival notebook in open archival housing.

    A Close-up with Field Book “Specimens”

    • Date: December 26, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: The Smithsonian’s Field Book Project is a continuous fount of work for both our digitization crew here at the Archives and for me as the conservator in charge of the project’s physical needs. Over the past several weeks I have worked on a variety of field books with different structures and treatment requirements, and will share a few of the most common features I’ve seen in

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    Conserving Harper’s Three-for-One Field Book

    • Date: August 24, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Though a large part of our collections are flat—that is, they are unbound materials as opposed to bound, three-dimensional objects—a significant group of our holdings do live in bindings and book structures (some of my previous blog contributions have dealt with books, but none with as great a degree of intervention). Treating a field book became more complicated—and more

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  7. Adopt-a-Book save-the-date promo graphic. The background is a painting of purple flowers. The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives logo is on the left. The right includes the text: Save the dates Adopt-a-Book Salons.

    Welcome to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book Program

    • Date: March 10, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: We all have the opportunity to support the Smithsonian—come see how the Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book program offers a chance to do so.

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  9. Mending one of the specimen illustrations atop a light box.

    An Undersea Invertebrates Update: Treatment Progress on Bartsch’s Nudibranchs Field Book

    • Date: May 18, 2017
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Treatment continues on Paul Bartsch’s field book documenting nudibranchs—see our progress!

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  11. A printed map, marked with red and brown inks, is unfolded showing the entirety of its information. A photographic target is at left.

    Navigating Treatment of the Dawson Map

    • Date: May 7, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Our treasures can pose significant—and often unexpected—challenges, like when a map has been attached to a hotel linen. See how our staff tackled a complex intervention in progress!

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  13. Color image of tall glass covered buildings, making up the Houston skyline, against and almost completely blue sky.

    Conference Round-up: the Archives at AIC Houston

    • Date: June 5, 2018
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: As we teased earlier this spring in our Facebook Live event, last week Senior Conservator Nora Lockshin and I traveled to Houston, Texas, to share our work with conservation colleagues at the 46th annual meeting of the American Institute of Conservation (AIC). Our contributions centered around work with the Field Book Project, as did our Facebook Live.Another successful

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  15. The damaged nudibranch field book

    Coming Soon to the Transcription Center: Department of Invertebrate Zoology

    • Date: November 15, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See what’s in store for the Transcription Center from the invertebrate zoology collections!

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  17. An attendee at “Don’t Rock the Cradle” examines magnetic strapping in the marketplace. Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015.

    Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action

    • Date: April 28, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.

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  19. Side-by-side of damaged papers, with folds and tears, and recently treated papers in good conditions.

    Decision-making and Digitization: Triaging Mass Treatment Options

    • Date: February 18, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Choosing the right treatment method can be a challenge—especially when mass interventions are needed on a tight deadline.

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  21. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt bends over a textile-mounted piece of art on paper; he is pressing a heated metal spatula against a piece of white insulating paper to soften heat-sensitive paper as a mending technique. The art on paper is supported on a clear acrylic board suspended between two white tables.

    Some Conservator Career Advice

    • Date: July 11, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: So you want to be a conservator? In this continuation of our series on career advice, one of our conservators shares some advice for those looking to explore the professional field of cultural heritage conservation.

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  23. The back page of the front cover and the first page of a book is visible. The notes are dated 1818.

    Rafinesque, Ready for a Close-Up

    • Date: December 13, 2018
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: When a television channel asks to film our collections, we want to show them at their best. Read how we accommodate media requests while keeping our collections safe.

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