Interview with Law Library Conservationist
"My job is to save as much of the original item as I can. We have a responsibility to the piece we’re working on, so a lot of it is forensic. Before you fix a book, you have to figure out why it broke. Learning how it was made will determine how it can be fixed."
This month’s The Resource, a faculty and staff newspaper at Harvard University published by the Office of Human Resources (and sadly restricted only to certain Harvard ID holders) profiles Dorothy Africa, a conservation librarian in Harvard Law School’s Langdell Library.
Unfortunately, the link is restricted to only people who have access to certain portions of Harvard’s Office of Human Resources intranet. Because The Resource does not maintain an online archive, the article will change at the end of the month.
