Holly Huston Krueger is a graduate of the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Conservation in New York. She has worked at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, the Amon Carter Museum, and Perry Huston and Associates in Ft. Worth, Texas. She currently works as Senior Paper Conservator at the Library of Congress, a position she's held since 1992. During her tenure, she has been Team Leader for large, multi-year projects aimed at preserving vast cartoon collections. She has recently completed a five year project to conserve and house the fourteen thousand original drawings of Herb Block that were donated to the Library upon his death in 2001.

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Price is Director of Conservation at the Winterthur Museum in Delaware where she directs a staff of 23 conservators and support staff and promotes conservation activities and education throughout the institution and in the larger community. She recently published a monograph with Oak Knoll Books on her work with collections of architectural drawings entitled Line, Shade and Shadow: the Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings.

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Don Etherington began bookbinding at age thirteen as a student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts and at Harrison’s & Company in London. He studied bookbinding and design with Edgar Mansfield and Ivor Robinson at the London School of Printing and worked as a conservator for the BBC and Roger Powell and Peter Waters. From 1967 to 1969, he was a training consultant at the Biblioteca Nazionale in Florence where he trained individuals in conservation practices as part of the flood response effort. He came to the Library of Congress (LC) in 1970 with Peter Waters, where he served as Training Officer and Assistant Restoration Officer. He served as Assistant Director and Chief Conservation Officer at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1987, he joined Information Conservation, Inc. where he created a new conservation division. In 1982, he co-authored, with Matt Roberts, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, the first comprehensive attempt to compile terminology from all the bookmaking and conservation fields

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After emigrating from Great Britain to the United States in 1969, John F. Dean managed the preservation program at the Newberry Library before establishing the apprentice training and conservation program at the Johns Hopkins University in1975. He went to Cornell University in 1985 to establish and develop the Department of Preservation and Conservation. He is widely recognized as one of the major proponents of preservation programs at academic libraries and was the 2003 recipient of the American Library Association’s prestigious Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Preservation Award. He is increasingly in demand internationally as a conservation consultant.

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Gary Frost is an educator in book art and book conservation. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University in New York and the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently the Conservator for the Libraries at the University of Iowa, and has been awarded the 2006 Banks/Harris Preservation Award by the ALCTS Division of the American Library Association. For more see his website Future of the Book.com, which also features many of his writings on the history of the book, reading, library preservation, and host of other issues.

Together with his partner Joyce Miller, Gary also operates Iowa Book Works a firm specializing in kits of historic structures and teaching workshops throughout the country.

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In private hands throughout much of the twentieth century, it was sold at auction to a private collector in 1998, and subsequently deposited at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland by the owner a few months later. Since that date the manuscript has been the subject of conservation, imaging, and scholarship.

This lecture will describe the history of the Palimpsest, its conservation treatment, and continuing research. Due to problems with Syracuse University Library's recording of the video we are linking to a version of the talk given to C-Span Video Library on December 14, 2007.

Dr. William Noel is Director of the Archimedes Palimpsest Project and has been Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore since 1997. Prior to that, he was Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and Director of Studies in the History of Art at Downing College, Cambridge University. Long dedicated to the study of early and medieval manuscripts, his life changed in January of 1999 when the Archimedes Palimpsest arrived on his desk, and he became the director of an integrated program of conservation, imaging, and scholarship on the world's most important palimpsest. His book on the Archimedes Palimpsest, co-authored by Professor Reviel Netz, will be published in late October of this year. The project is online at http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/.

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