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"Caring for Books & Paper Artifacts." 
July 22, 2002
Instructor: Susan Russick, Director of Conservation
Services at the Newberry Library in Chicago

The Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies is pleased
to announce a one-day workshop focusing on the types of 
materials present in library and archival collections, typical 
degradation patterns of those materials, and preservation 
techniques for slowing that degradation. 

Participants will do basic description and condition reports, evaluate 
appropriate housings, and learn when to call in a professional. 
Participants are encouraged to bring a few photographs or examples
of typical problems in their collections.

Offered at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies in
Mt. Carroll, Illinois on Monday July 22, 2002, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The workshop is being promoted through a collaboration with the 
Illinois Association of Museums and the Illinois Heritage Association.

Registration fee of $50.00 includes lunch and morning coffee. Overnight 
accommodations for Sunday, July 21st are available at the Campbell 
Center for $40.00 per night, the price also includes breakfast the
following morning. Members of IAM and IHA receive a 10 percent 
discount on both the registration fee and overnight accommodations.

Registration deadline is June 28, 2002. 

For registration information, contact the Campbell Center at:

[log in to unmask] or call (815)244-1173

Information about the Center is available at <www.campbellcenter.org> 

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