Archival Intervention for Rare Book Collection

The student will divide their time evenly between addressing archival preservation and conservation concerns and inventorying and cataloging the rare books collection. For the preservation and conservation portion of the project, the student will perform a variety of tasks, including creating phase boxes, performing paper conservation and binding work, and fully conserving and rebinding two books. For the inventorying and cataloging portion of the project, the student will establish existing cataloged holdings in OCLC Worldcat, conduct a baseline inventory of the uncataloged portion of the collection, and perform copy and original cataloging for same set of books receiving preservation and conservation treatment.