Preservation of Scrapbooks Workshop Announced

This workshop has been canceled. For more workshop announcements, please visit our workshop page.

Scrapbooks provide a unique historic perspective on individuals, families, organizations and institutions and hence are actively collected by archives, libraries, museums and historic societies. Photographs, newspaper clippings, ephemera and three-dimensional memorabilia are all found in albums and can pose complicated accessioning, inventory, and preservation issues.

This workshop will cover:

  • A short history of scrapbooks
  • Guidelines for providing intellectual and physical access to these materials
  • Care and handling of albums and scrapbooks
  • Guidelines and best practices for exhibition and storage

This workshop is designed for individuals who are interested in the preservation and care of scrapbooks. Whether you oversee the care and handling of scrapbooks or work directly with them at your institution, this workshop will address access, conservation, reformatting, and description as it relates to these unique books.

The workshop is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on October 24, 2016, at The Frontier in RTP. Refreshments and a box lunch is included with your registration.

For more information including how to register, please see our Workshop web page.

 

July 2016 Newsletter Now Available

This July 2016 issue of NC Preserves is now available online. The issue is dedicated to all things “membership.” In it you will can read about:

  • The benefits of NCPC membership–discounts, networking, and more!
  • Institutional members–thank you for your support
  • High Point Museum’s Preservation Grant–digitizing the High Point Enterprise negative collection, an NCPC grant-funded project
  • 2016 Preservation Grants are announced
  • New Workshop–Care of Historic Cemeteries (July 22, 2016; Asheville)
  • NCPC History Corner–discover how NCPC got started
  • How you can help NCPC create new workshops

April Newsletter Now Online

The April 2016 edition of NCPreserves is now online. In this issue:

  • Public-Private partnership preserves Post Office mural in Boone, NC.
  • NCPC Preservation Grant recipient Beinenstock Library (High Point, NC) reports on their completed project.
  • New member highlight: Carolinas Aviation Museum (Charlotte, NC).
  • Preservation grants and news roundups.
  • 2016 ALA preservation grants winners.

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