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Manuscript Mondays: Caring for Your Manuscript Collection
August 5 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
Sponsored by The Manuscript Society
Free, Live, Webinar
Monday, August 5, 2024, 8:00PM Eastern Time
Presenter: Rebecca Elder, Elder Cultural Preservation
Join us for a live presentation to learn more about properly caring for your manuscript collection. Experienced cultural heritage preservation consultant, Rebecca Elder will lead us through the physical aspects of paper documents, as well as proper storing and handling techniques for the longevity of your collection. It is not as hard as you think! Plus a Question and Answer.
Presenter: Rebecca Elder
Rebecca Elder is an experienced cultural heritage preservation consultant who helps clients find practical and achievable solutions to care for their history collections. She collaborates with libraries, museums, archives, municipalities and families to tailor preservation plans to their resources and timelines.
In 2014, Rebecca founded Rebecca Elder Cultural Heritage Preservation to provide preservation advice to clients holding history collections. She has also worked at Amigos Library Services, the Harvard University Libraries and the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.
She received her MSIS and a Certificate of Advanced Studies for Conservation of Library and Archival Materials from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, and now is adjunct faculty at the iSchool, teaching Preservation Management and Treatment Techniques for Bound Materials. Rebecca also teaches for museumstudy.com and for Kent State University’s Graduate School of Information.
Rebecca is a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. She also engages in professional service with the American Institute for Conservation, the Society of American Archivists, the Society of Southwest Archivists, the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums, and the American Association for State and Local History.
Registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9317214157507/WN_-Puj-UjfTrGdklADccvslQ
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