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Preservation – March 2011

Preservation and Conservation Internships for Summer 2011

By Kristen St. John on Tue, 2011-03-29 07:46

The UCLA Library Preservation Department is offering two internships for the summer of 2011.

Application deadline is April 29, 2011.

The visiting internship program offers capstone experiences to individuals enrolled in graduate preservation or conservation education and provides pre-program experiences to qualified students who are applying for Masters-level training in conservation.

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Pigments

By Jacob Nadal on Mon, 2011-03-21 04:41

We've posted several entries about our Armenian scrolls lately and throughout, we talk about pigments. We've looked at them with X-ray flourescense, we've made some educated guesses by eye, and soon, we'll be setting up a polarized light microscope to take yet another look in yet another way.

Douglas MacLennan: 2010 Summer Conservation Internship Report

By Kristen St. John on Mon, 2011-03-14 01:50

Beginning mid June, 2010 I began a summer-long internship working with collections conservator Kristen St. John at the UCLA Library Conservation Center (LCC).  As a pre-program student nearing readiness for entrance into a formal graduate program in conservation, my experience at the LCC has been both educational and extremely rewarding.

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