Harvard researchers head south to preserve ancient inscriptions
Researchers from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology are preparing to head into the Central American rain forest to begin an ambitious, multiyear project to scan and digitize fading Maya...
View ArticleCenter for the Technical Study of Modern Art announces landmark gift
The Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art (CTSMA), a leading research center of the Harvard University Art Museums, has announced a major gift of Barnett Newman’s studio materials and related...
View ArticleMaya, Aztec monument casts get the shake-out, dust-off
Plaster reproductions of Maya and Aztec carvings, which preserve precious details now lost on the originals, are leaving dusty, haphazard storage for cleaning, cataloging, and crating that will...
View ArticleLoeb Music co-authors issue major report on audio preservation
A new best-practices report co-authored by Loeb Music Library staff is drawing national and international attention for its comprehensive and candid approach to the field of audio preservation at both...
View ArticleHarvard University Library awarded $5M grant from Arcadia Fund
Britain’s Arcadia Fund has awarded $5 million to the Harvard University Library. Arcadia’s five-year grant will provide flexible support for the library’s core functions: acquisitions, access,...
View ArticleJane Cheng ’09: Preserving art, making it public, passing it on
Talk about a grand entrance — on her first day of work at the Herzog August Bibliothek, the famed medieval studies library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, Jane Cheng ’09 powered up her laptop and promptly...
View ArticlePeabody Museum receives grant to preserve maps, plans, and drawings
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Over the next 18 months, the museum will improve...
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Longfellow online exhibition recognized by ACRL
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) has selected the online exhibition “Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200” as...
View ArticleMelvin R. Seiden, I Tatti Council member, dies at 80
I Tatti Council founding member Melvin R. Seiden died suddenly on Jan. 14. Council chairman from 1984 until 1989, Seiden was an integral member and an untiring supporter of the I Tatti family, and was...
View ArticleJan Merrill-Oldham, preservation librarian, dies
Jan Merrill-Oldham, Harvard’s Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian from 1995 to 2010 and the driving force in developing the renowned preservation programs in the Harvard Library, died Oct. 5 at...
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A special journal explains the critical importance of biological collections
More than a century ago, when botanists and naturalists were in the field collecting plant and animal specimens, they couldn’t have imagined that scientists would one day be able to extract DNA from...
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