UNCG Preservation Services

01/28/2022

..when things have been “fixed” before..

09/07/2021

In Preservation Services, we work closely with our curators and archivists to make treatment decisions. If you would like to know more about those collaborations, check out our recent blog about it at:

PRESERVING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

03/19/2021

We recently built a few post binders to preserve three late 19th century sewing books created by students in a class at State Normal and Industrial School (now UNCG). All of the samples were sewn by hand and are very intricate. Unfortunately, the substrate pages they are attached to are quite brittle. If you would like to learn more about the process, read our latest blog entry.

PRESERVING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

02/17/2021

Hello, friends. If you like to follow along with our blog, please check out our latest post about one of the time-saving measures we use when there is too much mending to do and too little time.

L: Bound cello music score, R: Detail of damaged cover This 1917 volume of bound scores, from the collection of Luigi Silva (1903-1961), is ...

01/01/2021

Visit our latest blog entry to read a brief reflection on this year as it relates to the Preservation and Conservation profession and our responsibilities to learn and act.

At nearly the last possible minute of this year, I am reflecting on what has been said many times: 2020 has been a year like no other. We wi...

11/12/2020

We have just posted a new blog entry about endbands - resewing, restoration, stuck-on endbands...

PRESERVING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

04/07/2020

Hello, friends. We hope you are well and staying safe at home. Today, we posted the final installment of our three part series on the conservation of a large leather volume. To read more, visit our blog Speaking Volumes.

In our final post of this three part series about this conservation treatment, we will review covering the book in leather, reapplying the o...

03/24/2020

Today, on our blog Speaking Volumes... part 2 of a series of posts about the conservation treatment of a large leather volume.

In Part 1 of this series, we introduced a project to conserve The Royal Commentaries of Peru (RCP), a large leather volume. The book had to...

03/18/2020

We will be posting a series of blog entries about the extensive conservation of one large leather volume. Please follow along in the coming weeks if you would like. Following is Part 1.

In the coming weeks, we will be publishing a series of posts documenting the extensive treatment of one very large leather bound volume. Fo...

07/29/2019

We have a new blog post today on Leather Binding Repair: One Method of Board Reattachment. Check it out at https://uncgpreservation.blogspot.com/

04/06/2019

Greensboro folks: Please stop by the first annual Triad History Day (triadhistory.org) . We are here 10-3 today sharing advice about preservation with community members. A big thank you to for providing catalogs to share.