Preservation fair

Preservation Fair: Preserving your Family Treasures
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
4400 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA
Saturday, March 28, 2015
10 am - 4 pm

This event is free with admission to Carnegie Museum of Natural
History (includes same-day access to Carnegie Museum of Art)

A Preservation Fair is scheduled for Saturday, March 28, 2015 at the
Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.  The Preservation
Fair is a public information event designed to gather conservators,
preservation experts and preservation vendors together in one place
for the public to learn appropriate and effective methods for
preserving your family treasures.  This is a rare opportunity to
learn how to properly store, transport, fix clean and preserve your
precious keepsakes. Experts and vendors of conservation and
preservation supplies and services will be on hand to answer
questions, give demonstrations, and share information about artifact
preservation and conservation. No appraisals or valuations will be
provided.

Two talks will be provided.  Dr. Alison Langmead, Assistant
Professor at the University of Pittsburgh will discuss the rationale
for digital preservation and offer approaches that you can use to
responsibly care for your family's important and sentimental digital
documents.

Jim Burke, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Photography at Pittsburgh
Filmmakers and former director of Photo Services at the University
of Pittsburgh, will talk about ways to preserve photographic images
from all eras, and about his work digitally restoring old and
damaged photographs. The 2015 Preservation Fair is free with museum
admission and hosted by Carnegie Museum of Natural History as part
of its Super Science series.

The first Preservation Fair in Pittsburgh was held in 1999,
organized by the late Dr. Bernadette G. Callery, who was librarian
and archivist of Carnegie Museum of Natural History and later became
an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh's School of
Information Sciences.  Dr. Callery organized and managed four of
these fairs, and they are being continued in her memory.

For more information see the Preservation Fair website at

    <URL:http://www.ischool.pitt.edu/presfair>

Amy Williams
Book and Paper Conservator
Pittsburgh and Appalachia


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