5th Book, Paper & Photograph Symposium, 2008

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]. 

In situ conservation: an alternative approach for library collections

Paper Author:

Bunn, Sarah

Year:

2008
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 […]

Six months in a fleecy coat

Paper Author:

Durkin, Phillipa

Year:

2008
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 […]

The conservation of two medieval manuscripts

Paper Author:

Ben, Katrina; Cox, Ian

Year:

2008
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 […]

Stabilising Montien Boonma's Trio & Flattening Dong Wei's Snapshot

Paper Author:

Shellard, Samantha

Year:

2008
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 […]

Conclusions from a monitoring project on the effect of longer term display on books

Paper Author:

Holland, Jean

Year:

2008
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 […]

Changing buildings, building change - Conservation at the British Library

Paper Author:

Humphrey, Vicki

Year:

2008
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 […]

The mitigating effects of packaging on temperature and humidity fluctuations

Paper Author:

Batterham, Ian; Wignell, Jessica

Year:

2008
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 […]
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