Greetings Colleagues, I trust you're well and in good spirits. See messaging below from former Board member Debbie Hess Norris at University of Delaware. Share broadly! Respectfully, Sandra Dear Colleagues, It has been an honor to serve on the HBCU Library Alliance Board, a position I valued greatly. It is inspiring to observe all that the Alliance has accomplished thanks to the hard work and commitment of many, especially Sandra! I am hopeful that one of your photographic collections can be preserved at no cost and with great expertise by our ten graduate students in art conservation during my January 2023 three-week, intensive course in photograph conservation. I will be advertising this opportunity nationally soon, but I very much want to work with one of our HBCU libraries if possible. This is my primary goal. Last year, with great thanks to Dana Chandler, we worked on a wonderful collection from the Tuskegee University Archives. It was a rewarding experience for our students and many stunning yet damaged photographs were rehoused and conserved. See https://www.artcons.udel.edu/news/Pages/Preservation-and-Partnership-Art-conservation-course-treats-Tuskegee-photographs.aspx<https://www.artcons.udel.edu/news/Pages/Preservation-and-Partnership-Art-conservation-course-treats-Tuskegee-photographs.aspx%0d> Years prior we worked with Fisk University - with two important collections. The projects were a great success. Please let me know if you are interested in this possibility so we can connect asap to determine if this is possible. Please read below and all the best to each of you! Debbie Norris The Department of Art Conservation at the University of Delaware https://www.artcons.udel.edu/ seeks to help preserve a small (less than 200) collection of photographic prints held in a museum, library, archive or historic house that is in need of conservation treatment and rehousing. This project will be incorporated into a 3-week graduate-level course in photograph conservation which I have taught for nearly 40 years. https://www.artcons.udel.edu/faculty/ud-faculty/dhnorris. The work will be done on site at Winterthur Museum. All costs - transportation, treatment and rehousing supplies, time - will be covered by UD. The collection chosen will be shipped in late October for initial examination; treatment will be conducted in January, and the collection returned in February. These projects provide our ten talented graduate students with an opportunity to apply their skills and knowledge to the preservation of significant photographic holdings worldwide. International projects will be considered. Criteria for selection include (1) the significance of the collection locally, nationally or globally and the opportunity to preserve a collection in collaboration with their stakeholders and community, (2) lack of financial or human resources available to care for the collection (3) the condition of the collection - ideally these materials will require surface cleaning and some stabilization including binder consolidation, tear mending, flattening, and/or minimal inpainting, (4) the variety of the photographic processes represented, and (5) the learning and teaching opportunities presented by this work Given the collection size and time frame, individual reports will not be prepared for every photograph. One larger report will be required; selective individual reports may be prepared by each of our students. Approval for treatment will be secured in November so that the project can be completed on time. Planning is key. We have estimated that past projects would have costs $25,000 - $45,000. This is a wonderful opportunity for institutions and for our students and a project that I look forward to annually. Please email me (Debbie Hess Norris) with questions at dhnorris@udel.edu<mailto:dhnorris@udel.edu>. While I may send an e-mail outside traditional working hours, I do not expect a response outside of your own. Debra Hess Norris (she, her, hers) Chair and Professor of Photograph Conservation, Department of Art Conservation Unidel - Henry Francis DuPont Chair of Fine Arts Director, Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation Francis Alison Professor, 2018 Department of Art Conservation (www.artcons.udel.edu<http://www.artcons.udel.edu/>) 303 Old College Newark, Delaware 19716 Cell 302-981-8424 (but email is best) We acknowledge that the land on which the University of Delaware sits and occupies today as the traditional home of the Lenni-Lenape and Nanticoke tribal nations (Delaware's nation). We take this opportunity to thank and express gratitude to the original caretakers of this land.