Life is pretty hard in Los Angeles. Day after day, week after week, every month, year in and out, the collections and library staff throughout the LA metro area endure pleasantly warm temperatures and moderate humidity. On some days, when our poor sky doesn't even have a cloud to call its own, I can only console myself by taking a walk through the sculpture garden.

A few years ago I attended a great conference on "direct digital image capture of cultural heritage" at the Munsell Color Science Lab at RIT. Their final report overturned a number of my assumptions about digtal color management and forced me (and many others, to judge from the lively discussions at the conference) to become more rigorous in my thinking on that aspect of our work.

We're looking forward to hosting a tour for the Horn Press on Weds, Feb. 17. Our conservator, Kristen St. John will be giving a tour of the Library Conservation Center and afterwards I'll be speaking about the state of things in library preservation and showing photos from a few disaster response projects.