The preservation challenges posed by the Library's diverse collections have often been of interest outside the Library. For more information, please consult the following three areas.
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Conservation Highlights. In 2010, the Preservation Directorate devoted part of its website to demonstrating the techniques used by the Conservation Division. This page not only addresses treatments but also created housings. This pages is updated periodically as projects are completed.
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Conservation Corner. The Information Bulletin of The Library of Congress has often highlighted the work of Conservation Division in periodic series called "Conservation Corner." This link will provide you with a list of all the articles that have appeared in this series.
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Bach to Baseball Cards. As part of the Library's Bicentennial celebration in 2000, the Conservation Division highlighted many of their past treatments of the Library's rich and diverse collections. This page provides before and after photographs and brief description of the challenges in preserving the item.
Stabilizing Special Collections for High-density Storage
In 2005, the Library of Congress opened a state-of-the-art, high-density storage facility thirty miles from Capitol Hill at Fort Meade in Maryland. Modules 3 and 4 were designed to house 22 million special-format collection items. The Conservation Division Move Project team was charged with preparing especially challenging special format collections for off-site transport and storage.
The collections included a variety of formats such as globes, rolled architectural drawings, ephemera, large works of art on paper, photographs, negatives, maps, manuscripts, newspapers, rare folios and a variety of three-dimensional objects.
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Collections Recovery Room
A dedicated, secure space for processing and salvaging collections affected by emergencies and for emergency training.
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Research Projects
Conservation undertakes various research initiatives driven by the collections, including collaborative efforts with the Preservation Research and Testing Division and sister insitutions.
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