Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Libraries"
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.
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.
A Glimpse of 1920s China from the Remington Kellogg Papers
- Date: February 19, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: With Chinese New Year upon us, the beautiful stationery these letters are written on gives a glimpse into life for academic expatriates in southern China in the 1920s.
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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
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.