If you have a question, need a consultation, or to request services, please email: preventiveconservation@yale.edu and one of us will be in touch to help. To report a collections emergency, please call the department's emergency number, 475-301-4519.
Conservation & Exhibition Strategies staff are available to assist Library staff with:
Reviewing the condition of individual items or collections of materials, from both circulating and special collections
Conducting conservation surveys of collections
Housing items and collections in boxes, custom enclosures, or mats
Training needs
Handling potentially hazardous, moldy or pest infested materials, and excessively dusty or dirty collections
Technical art history and material culture research questions
Planning and producing exhibitions with Library collections
Loaning items to the campus museums, and outside organizations for exhibition
Managing outsourced conservation treatment projects
Contact Us:
Conservation and Exhibition Strategies
Brenna Campbell, Associate Director
Rare Books and Manuscripts Conservation
Paper and Photograph Conservation
Marie-France Lemay, Head
Preventative Conservation
Tara Kennedy, Head
Exhibition Production
Kerri Sancomb, Program Production Manager
Full staff contact information can be found on the Yale University Library website @ Staff Directory | Yale Library
We collect a variety of data and create different types of documentation records for the treatment work we carry out. Survey reports, spreadsheets and databases, condition reports, treatment proposals, and treatment reports. We also digitally photograph items before and after treatment. We may also research an object or object type related to its origins, fabrication, material composition, and previous use. Our documentation files are essentially the "medical" histories of objects. These records include conservation work done in the Gates Conservation and by outside conservators or consultants hired for specific projects.
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