The 5th AICCM Book, Paper & Photographs Symposium was held at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra during July 2008.
Symposium preprints are available from our Bookstore.
Presentation abstracts are available below; alternatively, download the abstract booklet [Adobe Acrobat PDF – 931.57 KB].
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Abstract The explosion in popularity of digital photography and printing has meant that people produce, use and buy digital output prints without really thinking about what they have in their hands. Is it […]
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Abstract The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has recently investigated, designed and installed a low-cost, low-energy solution for the storage of cellulose acetate film. In the USA, prominent researchers Mark McCormick-Goodhart […]
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Abstract This presentation examines the mechanisms of silver image fade in cellulose nitrate motion picture film and describes a non-chemical treatment to intensify the faded silver image. From the earliest days of motion […]
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Abstract From limp-vellum to ornately stamped cloth publishers’ bindings, books are as varied as they are beautiful. Books are complex and intricate packages and there is often as much to be learned from […]
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Abstract Latitude 77’33’ 10.7”S, longitude 166’10’ 6.5”E g Ernest Shackleton and his team probably never envisaged that their humble hut at Cape Royds would still be standing after 100 years, but they had […]
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Abstract From March through to June 2008, the State Library of Victoria held a major exhibition of medieval manuscripts entitled ‘The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated Manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand’. This provided […]
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Full title: Stabilising Montien Boonma’s Trio & Flattening Dong Wei’s Snapshot: two case studies involving collaboration and adaptation Abstract Rarely does a paper conservator work in isolation. Treating and displaying artworks within a […]
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Abstract The State Library of Victoria’s permanent exhibition, Mirror of the World: books & ideas opened in 2005. Before this exhibition, the SLV’s conservators were accustomed to assessing material for exhibitions of three […]
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Abstract The British Library Centre for Conservation (BLCC), open and operating since May 2007, represents much more than a new building to house Conservation and the Sound Archive Technical Studios. The BLCC project […]
Contributions to the 5th AICCM Book, Paper and Photographic Materials Symposium. Editors: Prue McKay and Alana Treasure. Canberra, ACT: AICCM (Inc.), 2008. Abstract Monitoring sensors in storage spaces are generally located out in the open and thus are checking conditions in the general air space of the storage area. In cases where a collection is […]