Preservation Services Department
Preservation Services is a division of Special Collections and University Archives in the University Libraries. It is located in the Walter Clinton Jackson Library building. We provide care and conservation for the University Libraries holdings, including more than 2.19 million printed books, archives and federal and state documents.
As conservators, our goal is to preserve, repair and protect our libraries’ resources, making the best decisions suitable to an item when arriving at our division, enabling our patrons to benefit from the use of our materials for many years to come.
The University Libraries serves our community of students, patrons, researchers and friends of the library. The Preservation Services works together with the UNCG student’s community employing them as bookbinding and conservation apprentices, as well as offering volunteer opportunities.
Our conservation procedures include measures to preserve our books and materials that are a part of our unique collections:
- mending
- infilling
- sewing and repair of text blocks
- consolidating spines and book covers
- restoring, rebacking and rebinding in cloth or full leather
- protective enclosures ( e.g. phase box, four flap or clamshell) to provide stability for fragile or uniquely formatted items
Please visit our Preservation Services LibGuide. There are helpful tutorials, online resources for bookbinding and book conservation, and sources for buying tools and supplies for book repair.
Educating our patrons is our responsibility. We exhibit informative displays in Jackson Library and maintain a blog entitled Speaking Volumes which provides individuals with helpful information regarding the care and treatment of books and other materials as well as illustrating samples of our restoration projects.
Useful links:
- American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
- The Guild of Bookworkers
- The Library of Congress
Audrey Sage – Preservation Manager [email protected]
Preservation Services, Jackson Library, Room 61. Phone: 336.334.5145
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