Colleagues, See messaging below from Board member Debbie Hess Norris regarding preservation project for small collection of photographic prints. Reach out to Debbie for more information. Respectfully, Sandra The Department of Art Conservation at the University of Delaware (UD) https://www.artcons.udel.edu/ seeks to help preserve a small (less than 300) 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 led by Professor Debra Hess Norris, a proud member of the HBCU Library Alliance Board. 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. Past projects have included: (1) the preservation of the W.E.B. DuBois WWII Photograph Collection at Fisk University, (2) a large collection of 19th-century images depicting Arctic Exploration from the Explorers Club in NYC, and (3) the recovery of 280+ flood-damaged photographs from Wimberley, Texas. See https://www.udel.edu/udaily/2017/january/art-conservation-arctic-explorers-photographs/ and http://www1.udel.edu/udaily/2016/jan/saving-photographs-011516.html for more information. 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, (2) 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, (3) the variety of the photographic processes represented, and (4) 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 with selective individual reports 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 - $40,000. This is a wonderful opportunity for institutions in need of photograph preservation assistance and for our students, and a project that I look forward to annually. Please email me (Debbie Hess Norris, Chair and Professor of Photograph Conservation, University of Delaware) with questions at dhnorris@udel.edu<mailto:dhnorris@udel.edu> . Debra Hess Norris Chair and Professor of Photograph Conservation Unidel- Henry Francis DuPont Chair of Fine Arts Director - Winterthur/UD Program in Art Conservation Francis Alison Scholar 2019 Art Conservation Department University of Delaware 303 Old College Newark, DE 19716 dhnorris@udel.edu<mailto:dhnorris@udel.edu> SANDRA M. PHOENIX HBCU Library Alliance Executive Director Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library 111 James P. Brawley Drive SW Atlanta GA 30314 404-978-2118 (office) 404-702-5854 (cell) http://www.hbculibraries.org sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> Honor the ancestors, honor the children and those yet to come. Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hbculibraryalliance1/ and Twitter at https://twitter.com/HBCULibAlliance Check out "PULSE!" The HBCU Library Alliance's News Source! - https://hbculibraryalliance.wordpress.com/