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Elizabeth Boyne and Sarah Newton, Conservation Technicians in Conservation Services

Preservation Week: 5 questions with Elizabeth Boyne and Sarah Newton

April 25, 2017
by Richenda Brim
Preservation
Q&A

Our Preservation Week Q&A series turns its focus on Conservation Services today. The Conservation Services team plays a primary role in the care of library collections. Conservators and conservation technicians treat, stabilize, and house collection items in support of patron use, digitization projects, and exhibition loans. Last year, they repaired 881 items and housed 1,806 items. Sarah Newton (right) and Elizabeth Boyne (left) share the responsibility for the collection housing work among the other tasks they describe below.

Read on to learn more about their work!

Kam Chan, Systems Administrator, Digital Library Systems and Services

Preservation Week: 5 questions with Kam Chan

April 25, 2017
by Richenda Brim
Preservation
Q&A

Our Preservation Week Q&A series continues today with Kam Chan, Systems Administrator in Digital Library Systems and Services. DLSS provides access systems, digitization, and digital preservation for Stanford Libraries. The department collaborates across the Libraries to manage digital resources throughout their lifecycle which relies on the important technical support Kam provides.

Jeffrey Ramos and Aihua Zhang

Preservation Week: 5 questions with Jeffrey Ramos and Aihua Zhang

April 24, 2017
by Richenda Brim
Preservation
Q&A

Our Preservation Week posts continue today with Jeffrey Ramos and Aihua Zhang from the Binding and Finishing unit. Our Binding and Finishing team prepares the general collection print and media materials for shelving, reformatting, and commercial bindery. Their work helps prolong the useful life of our circulating collections. Jeff and Aihua are the most recent full-time additions to this group, joining as permanent staff about six months apart in 2015 and 2016.

For more information about Preservation Week including resources, quick tips, and free webinars you can visit the American Library Association’s Preservation Week website.

Cathy Aster

Preservation Week: 5 questions with Cathy Aster

April 24, 2017
by Richenda Brim
Preservation
Q&A

This week, libraries around the country will share preservation tips and stories for the American Library Association’s annual Preservation Week. You can find preservation resources, quick tips, and free webinars on the Preservation Week site covering the spectrum of collection care from textiles to personal digital archives. We will spend this week meeting some of the people that support preservation and conservation activities across Stanford Libraries. Team members from Preservation and Digital Library Systems and Services have answered five questions about themselves and their work on the long-term care of our books, archives, audio-visual resources, and born-digital files.

We kick off our Preservation Week posts with Cathy Aster, Service Manager in Digital Library Systems and Services.

Marble seated harp player, ca. 2800-2700 BC

New titles in Music Reference, Spring 2017

April 24, 2017
by Ray Heigemeir
Music
New acquisitions

The following titles have been added to the Music Library Reference Room.  In no particular order:

 

Latin American classical composers : a biographical dictionary / [edited by] Martha Furman Schleifer and Gary Galván (3rd ed.)

El legado musical griego en España : manuscritos griegos de música bizantina en bibliotecas españolas / Paraskevi Gatsioufa.

The encyclöpedia of heavy metal / Daniel Bukszpan ; foreword by Ronnie James Dio.

Anthony Robinson Scanner

Piano roll scanner update

April 10, 2017
by Jerry L McBride
Digitization
Music
Sound recordings

It has been some time since there has been a report on the Player Piano Project, but there has been a great deal of activity toward the design and construction of a piano roll scanner. We are working with Anthony Robinson in England who is a player piano enthusiast and the designer of a roll scanner which we believe is one of the best scanners in operation to date. Anthony graciously and generously agreed to work with us to create a scanner that would handle scanning large numbers of rolls easily and efficiently.

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