University of Texas Preservation and Conservation Studies Program

The Preservation and Conservation Studies Program of the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science at the University of Texas
at Austin announces with gusto that Consuela "Chela" Metzger will
join the faculty in January, 2001, as the book conservation
educator.  Chela will shoulder responsibility for all book courses
and offer work in other areas of the Library and Information Science
curriculum strengthening the Preservation and Conservation presence
in the studies of students throughout the school.

Ms. Metzger holds a Master of Library Science from Simmons College
specializing in preservation administration and the history of
visual communication, and a Certificate in Hand Bookbinding from the
North Bennet Street School.  She moves to UT from her position as
Project Conservator at the Huntington Library, and will arrive fresh
from serving an extended Fulbright Lectureship at the University
Buenos Aires, Argentina.  Ms. Metzger is a member of the American
Institute for Conservation, Book and Paper Group.

David B. Gracy II, CA
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Mail code: D7000
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712-1276


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