October Preservation Tip

This summer Tedd Anderson, Conservation Technician at Duke University, wrote two entertaining blog posts on his successes boxing books of unusual size. The first details his work with Audubon’s Birds of America (40 inches by 27 inches) and the second with Duke’s collection of miniature books (several of which can fit together on your palm). Read for tips on how to make an enclosure that isn’t so heavy it adds an extra 20 pounds to an already hefty volume or so loose that a book might be dropped and lost.

Do you have topics you would like to see highlighted, or suggestions for resources?  Please send your ideas to Celia Gavett at cgavet@law.columbia.edu.

Tips from previous months are available here.

New LIPA Board

LIPA has a new Board of Directors as of July 2016.  The current Chair is Jean Wenger, Deputy Law Librarian of Cook County Law Library in Illinois (pictured below, third from end on right).  All members of the current board are listed here.  Contact any one of us for more information on how you can get more involved!

Thank you to our outgoing board members – past chair Joann Hounshell (far left) and secretary Janet Fisher (second from end on right).  

LIPA Meeting Wrap-Up

Thank you to those who were able to join us for the LIPA meeting at AALL. Abbie Grotke, Lead Information Technology Specialist on the Library of Congress Web Archiving Team, and Andrew Weber, Legislative Information Systems Manager in the Law Library of Congress, spoke to the group. Abbie spoke about web archiving generally at the Library of Congress and Andrew spoke about the Law Library’s role in web archiving and the collections that are being archived.  Photo below is of Andrew speaking while Abbie looks on.

Interested in preservation issues and want to get more involved with LIPA? We need volunteers on our education committee.  Contact Margie Maes or anyone on the LIPA Board.