Today’s entry is written by Ariana Dunning, a graduate student in Museum Studies at New York University, working in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department. The Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archive holds an extensive collection of political, labor, and protest buttons that have
In late 2013, curators from the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives selected a Spanish Civil War-era rifle for rehousing treatment in the Barbara Goldsmith Book and Paper Conservation Lab. The rifle, which belongs to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) Artifacts collection, had been
Today’s post was written by Lou Di Gennaro, Special Collections Conservator in the Barbara Goldsmith Book & Paper Conservation Laboratory at Bobst Library Much has already been written about the Liber Chronicarum better known to English speakers as the Nuremberg Chronicle. A simple Google search
Today’s entry is written by Kimberly Tarr, Moving Image Preservation Specialist at the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department of NYU Libraries. NYU’s Tamiment Library and the Division of Libraries Media Preservation Unit are delighted to announce the recent film-to-film preservation of three 16mm reels
Today’s entry is written by Amy Hughes, a graduate student at the Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center, with additional material from Conservation Librarian Laura McCann and Archives of Irish America Archivist Rachel Searcy Late in the afternoon on Monday, October 5, one week after
One of the most recent initiatives in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation department is the creation of the Archives Preservation Program. The program supports the long term maintenance of archival materials held by the archival repositories in Bobst Library. The three collecting repositories—Fales, Tamiment
To kick off Archives Week 2010, we have a post introducing our Media Preservation Unit in the Preservation and Conservation Department. Being a university research library, the collections housed at Bobst are in constant use, which wears away the material. It is the role of
This week’s post comes from Siobhan Hagan, a graduate of NYU’s MIAP program, who is now working as an assistant in the Media Unit of the BG Preservation & Conservation Department. As the Fales finding aid for the Andrea Callard Papers states on their website,
Downtown New York artist Christopher D’Arcangelo (1955-79) created artworks that simultaneously highlight and frustrate the commoditization of both his artistic production and his artistic practice. During his lifetime, the artist carefully documented his ephemeral works in a variety of ways, demonstrating a deep concern with
This blog post will detail the experience of two graduate students in the NYU Archives and Public History program who worked on pre-processing the Sylvester Manor Papers in the Conservation Laboratory in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department. The Sylvester Manor Papers were processed