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Subject: Learn about Glass Plates with the WPI and ARLIS/NA
Hello,
The WPI is hosting an event this April 6 at the ARLIS/NA conference:
Preserving Photographic Glass Plates:
Conservation and Access in the Digital Age
The WPI is pleased to announce its participation at the
50th annual conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA).
The conference will take place April 5–9, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency in
Chicago, IL.
Our panel
"Preserving Photographic Glass Plates: Conservation and Access in the Digital Age,"
scheduled on Wednesday, April 6th at 8:30AM (CDT) brings together an interdisciplinary panel of conservators, historians, and archivists who will present their own preservation and public access strategies and discuss the relevance of these materials
to their distinct fields of study. The moderated question and answer portion of the session will emphasize the need for collaboration between institutions to undertake ambitious conservation-related projects and improve access to these significant historical
materials.
PROGRAM
INTRODUCTION
Elizabeth Gorayeb
Executive Director, WPI New York
PRESENTATIONS
Jody Butterworth
Curator, Endangered Archives Programme, The British Library, London, UK
with Bayasgalan Bayanbat,
Archives for Cinema, Photography and Sound Recording, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Jody will introduce the British Library’s
Endangered Archives Programme (EAP), which facilitates the digitization of archives around the world
that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. Bayasgalan, a recent EAP grantee, will present the holdings of
The Archives for Cinema, Photography and Sound Recording in Mongolia, which house over
160,000 photo negatives, including 10,552 glass plate negatives and their digitization process.
Elisabeth Long
Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Digital Scholarship
University of Chicago Library, Chicago, IL
Elisabeth will discuss the
Library’s collection of 175,000 images of astronomical objects
on photographic glass plate slides from Yerkes Observatory and how it offers tremendous potential for both historians of science and astronomers and astrophysicists doing cutting-edge research today.
Fatima Fall
Director, Centre de Recherches et de Documentation du Sénégal (CRDS), Saint-Louis, Senegal
Preventive Conservation Specialist, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Senegal
Fatima will present her
institution’s collections of glass plates
and how Fatima and her team were able to identify sitters in a series of portraits thanks to the traveling exhibition they organized.
Sandrine Canac
Director of Digital Archival Projects, WPI New York
Sandrine will share examples of glass plate negatives the WPI inherited and how the long-term preservation of these objects requires guidance and a significant commitment of
resources smaller institutions often lack.
MODERATOR
Debra Hess Norris
Conservator
Unidel Henry Francis du Pont Chair, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Q&A to follow
The Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc. is non-profit, private foundation dedicated to the compilation of digital catalogue raisonnés and archives that support research in
the field of art history.
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Olivia Rodrigues
Public Relations and Program Coordinator
Wildenstein Plattner Institute
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