Preservation Lecture Series

JACK (’47) AND BETSY O’NEILL PRESERVATION LECTURE


Thursday, April 19, 3:30 pm

Sterling Memorial Library lecture hall

Mary M. Brooks, PhD, FIIC, ACR, is a private conservator and consultant on the conservation of textiles. She has worked in museums in the United States, Europe and England. Her exhibition, Stop the Rot, at York Castle Museum aimed to raise public awareness of heritage conservation. Besides her consulting and conservation work she teaches conservation and museology in universities in the United Kingdom and abroad. Mary has a particular interest in the contribution that object-based research and conservation approaches can make to the wider interpretation and presentation of cultural artifacts. Her talk will explore the changing relationships between conservators, conservation and the public and scholars in our post-modern digital world of replicas and multiples.

There will be an informal reception following the talk.

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The first three Preservation Lectures were funded through the generous donation of the Hon. Paul S. Stevens '74 B.A.

Past Lectures:

"But Storage is Cheap!... Preservation in the Age of Abundance"

Abby Smith Rumsey, Director, Scholarly Communication Institute

Lecture in the Sterling Memorial Library on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at 3:30 p.m.

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"Paradoxes of Preservation—a personal & strategic perspective on crossing the pond"

Helen Shenton, former Head of Collection Care at the British Library, current Deputy Director at Harvard University Library.

A lecture from November 11, 2010

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 "Sustainable Stewardship: The New Thinking, Preservation Environments, and Building Operations"

James J. Reilly, Director, Image Permanence Institute

A lecture from April 7, 2010

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