Ross Harvey - The Preservation Management Handbook: A 21st-Century Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Brenda Bernier, Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian, is director of Harvard Librarys Preservation Services, where she leads teams committed to the preservation and conservation of general library collections as well as the rare and unique books, photographs, works on paper, audiovisual materials, and digital content in the universitys vast library system. Prior positions at Harvard include the James Needham Chief Conservator, head of the Weissman Preservation Center and Collections Care, and the Paul M. and Harriet L. Weissman Senior Photograph Conservator. Brenda held previous posts at the National Archives and Records Administration, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. She has a masters degree in photograph conservation from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation and is currently on the board of directors for the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

Al Carver-Kubik is research scientist at the Image Permanence Institute at the Rochester Institute of Technology and holds an MA in photographic preservation and collections management from Ryerson University in coordination with the George Eastman Museum. Carver-Kubik was a 20082009 graduate intern at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, coauthoring the book In the Darkroom: An Illustrated Guide to Photographic Processes before the Digital Age (2010). Carver-Kubik researches and writes about photographic processes, disseminating this knowledge through the web resource Graphics Atlas (www.graphicsatlas.org) and with workshops and webinars on a variety of related topics. Carver-Kubik also conducts research on the impact of storage environments on library and archive materials.

Donia Conn is on the faculty at Simmons University School of Library and Information Science and is a private conservator with more than twenty years of experience in the preservation of cultural heritage collections. Throughout her career she has chaired committees for the American Library Association; been a delegate for the United States on the International Organization for Standardization Working Group on ISO 11799; reviewed grants for the NHPRC, the IMLS, the NEH, and the Greater Hudson Heritage Network; and been a subject specialist reviewer for professional journals. Ms. Conn has years of experience in training and assessment for a wide range of cultural heritage institutions. In addition to teaching for Simmons University, she has developed curricula and taught for Heritage Preservation, the state of Connecticut, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the American Library Association. She earned her BA in Mathematics from St. Olaf College and her MLIS with Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the University of Texas-Austin. Past employers include the Northeast Document Conservation Center, Northwestern University, Syracuse University, The Folger Shakespeare Library, and the University of Kentucky. Ms. Conn is also a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation and a member of AICs National Heritage Responders. As an independent consultant, Donia has worked for such institutions as the Saratoga County Historical Society, Lake Placid Olympic Museum, Skidmore College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, the Greater Hudson Heritage Network, the University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, and Washington University.

Ross Harvey has held academic positions at universities in Australia, Singapore, and the United States. His research interests focus on the stewardship of digital materials in libraries and archives, particularly on its preservation. Ross has published widely in the fields of bibliographic organization, library education, the preservation of library and archival material, and newspaper history. His most recent books are (with Jaye Weatherburn) Preserving Digital Materials, 3rd ed. (2018) and (with Gillian Oliver) Digital Curation, 2nd ed. (2016).

Heather Hole is associate professor of Art History and director of the Arts Administration Program at Simmons University and a former curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Georgia OKeeffe Museum. She also teaches in the Harvard University Extension Schools Museum Studies masters program. Her areas of expertise are American and Mexican modernism; arts administration; gender and visual culture; and the arts in Boston and New York. Her current research focuses on the forgotten exhibition spaces of early 20th-century New York, including Colonial American period rooms in Wanamakers department store and the miniature art gallery, filled with work by artists including Marcel Duchamp, in Carrie Stettheimers Doll House. Professor Hole is the author of the book Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism, published by Yale University Press, and the curator of the traveling exhibition of the same name. She received her PhD from Princeton University and her BA from Smith College.

Frances Lennard worked as a textile conservator for fifteen years, at the United Kingdoms Textile Conservation Centre and in private practice, before returning to the Textile Conservation Centre, University of Southampton in 2001. She led the centers MA Textile Conservation program and then the MPhil Textile Conservation at the University of Glasgow for sixteen years. She is now professor of textile conservation at the University of Glasgow, where her research interests focus on textile treatments.

Martha R. Mahard managed the print and photograph inventory projects at the Boston Public Library (BPL). Before joining the BPL, she was a professor of practice at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons in Boston, where she taught courses in the management of photographic archives, art documentation, and preservation management. She also held a variety of positions in the Harvard University libraries, including the Harvard Theatre Collection, the Graduate School of Design Library, and the Fine Arts Library, where she was curator of Historic Photographs. During her thirty-five-year career at Harvard, she was instrumental in the development and implementation of their first online union catalog for visual materials. She holds a BA in English literature from Barnard College, an MA in Theatre History from Tufts University, and an MLIS and a Doctor of Arts degree in Library Administration from Simmons University. She is the coauthor of Libraries, Archives and Museums Today: Insights from the Field (2019).

Bob Pymm is an adjunct senior lecturer in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, teaching in the areas of collection development and preservation. He also coordinates a specialist online audiovisual archiving program with research interests in this field. Prior to his retirement from full-time work three years ago, Bob was associate head of school at CSU, and before starting there he worked in Canberra at the Australian War Memorial in what was then their audiovisual records section (19851993) and then for thirteen years at the National Film and Sound Archive. In this last position he was head of the Collection Development section. He has published widely and has a PhD from the University of New South Wales that focused on the preservation of Australian popular fiction, 19001970.

Dawn Walus is the chief conservator at the Boston Athenum. Previously, she worked as a book conservator at the Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard Library, and has held conservation internships and positions at the Preservation Society of Newport County in Newport, Rhode Island; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the New York Academy of Medicine; Rieger Art Conservation (Works on Paper) in New York City; and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. She received a Master of Art/Certificate of Advanced Study in Art Conservation from the Buffalo State College Art Conservation Graduate Program in 2009 and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts from Rutgers University in 1995. She is a member of the American Institute for Conservation, the Guild of Book Workers, and the New England Conservation Association (board member).