#rehousing

[evthescribbleguy]

Rehousing Mahito :]

The new enclosure! (don't mind Mini Pekka in the bg)

Here comes Mahito!!!

Now it just needs to get used to its new home! Kids really DO grow up so fast...

[conservethis]

NO. That is WRONG SIZE! Wrong EVERYTHING

ಠ_ಠ

[thesiriuspatrol]

[brooklynmuseum]

November 4th is #AskAConservator Day! Conservators around the world will be answering questions about their work in the spirit of sharing knowledge and celebrating the growth of the field, and our #BKMConservation staff would love to hear from you. Our conservation lab is made up of ten conservators, four interns working across paper, painting, and object conservation as well as four Collection Management staff. Our conservators worked on approximately 840 objects and artworks this year while our Collections Management team has worked on multiple large, long-term storage/rehousing projects across all our collections.

Have a question for any of them? Look out for our post and Instagram stories on November 4th. The lab will be answering questions from 9am-5pm EST.⁠

Photos by Maribel Vitagliani and Cindy Ortiz

[joy-haver]

You can set boundaries without being dismissive.

I have homeless folks stay with me sometimes. Other times I help them find resources. I make it very clear that there are things I can do, and things I can’t. And that if they can’t accept the type help I offer, then I will move on and offer it to someone who will.

Some folks want to die slow and take as many people as they can with them. You have to learn how to avoid that happening.

Some folks just expect others to have endless resources to support them, even when it’s clearly stated that that is not the case.

Niether of those things is there fault. It is a result of circumstances. Someone may be able to help them, but You, as an individual can only provide what you have available. However, just because you can’t help someone doesn’t mean they are rejecting being helped.

It’s okay to say “I cannot help you with this, but I hope you find people who can. Therapy may be an option, shelters may be an option, here are other options I can point you towards, but I can’t do this for you”

But therapy is not a Fix-All solution, and It doesn’t help every situation. Same with temporary housing. Same with whatever resource you provide or point people towards.

Do what you can.

Don’t lie to yourself or others about what you can do.

Don’t pretend that you can fix every situation.

[efectoscuster]

#Repost @richardcolemanrock #rehousing is my middle mame.😉 ... Antes y después. @danelectro_official French Toast (clon Foxx Tone Machine) y Fried Chicken ( Clon Univibe con célula fotoeléctrica) Custom Rehousing y mods por @efectoscluster. Al French Toast se le agregó un footswitch para activar la octava, un switch para modificar la curva de Eq, TBP y algún componente de calidad... el Chicken sufrió la aplicación de una idea mía más complicada de lo que parecía, un footswich y control de segunda velocidad. Además de control de volumen y TBP, se le amplió la profundidad modificando la caja de la célula fotoeléctrica. Los gabinetes de Cluster y el detalle de la aplicación del Logo de Danelectro son preciosos. Con este Fuzz grabé, por ejemplo, mi versión de “To Bring You My Love”. Los sombreritos de los switches son de @apickpuas y la modificación del anaranjado a tap tempo la hice yo.✨💀👍🏿 #pedalboardoftheday #fuzz #univibe #foxxtonemachine #octavefuzz #danelectro #friedchicken #frenchtoast (en Cluster) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPQ6lP7HIM0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[u-mspcoll]

The Preservation of Structural & Historic Integrity: Rehousing the Michigan Manuscripts

The University of Michigan Library preserves an impressive array of medieval and early modern manuscripts from multiple cultures and languages -- including Greek, Latin, Armenian, and Ethiopian -- classed under the designation Michigan Manuscripts. Fortunately, many of the manuscripts within this collection have largely been left in their original bindings and most damages have gone untreated. Read more!

[nyupreservation]

Creating Access and Adapting to a Pandemic

by Laura Juliano, NYU Graduate Student, Public History and Archives

The Textile Workers Union of America Scrapbooks WAG 249, is a collection in the Tamiment Library at NYU Special Collections. The Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA) was an industrial union of textile workers established through the Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1939 and which merged with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America to become the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) in 1976. 

Work in the Lab:

During my time in the NYU’s Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department, Book and Paper Conservation Lab, I was part of a project to complete the second step of the TWUA’s iterative process: creating access by opening up the scrapbooks from their bindings and rehousing the material.

Western Union Telegram, 1917; Textile Workers Union of America Scrapbooks, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, WAG 249 NYU Special Collections. 

If a binding is too tight, the text is obscured. To fix this, we removed the bindings, the conservators removed the cloth covers and removed the text block from the board, and then each page was separated from the binding paste by peeling them apart one at a time.

 Original bindings of the Scrapbooks; Textile Workers Union of America Scrapbooks, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, WAG 249 NYU Special Collections. 

Once the pages were separated, they were re-foldered and re-housed in archival quality boxes and folders and sent up to ACM for processing. The collection is now more accessible for researchers and is ready for its next step in processing.

Finished product of re-housed material Boxes 1-15; Textile Workers Union of America Scrapbooks, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, WAG 249 NYU Special Collections.

After the Pandemic:

My time in the lab was cut short due to NYC’s quarantine and the global pandemic that has swept through our city. My hands-on learning was replaced with zoom interviews with conservators and archivists from around the country, discussing iterative processing and how to balance access with preservation at larger institutions. This is access I would never have had if my internship had stayed in the lab.

While the personal interviews and access to top industry professionals has been informative and useful, I am worried about the opportunities I am missing out by being unable to work in the lab, what hands-on experience I could have had if I could still be learning directly from some of the best conservators in the country.

While we wait to see how the pandemic plays out, I am finishing my semester remotely while the Special Collections library handles access and user interface remotely. In this age of remote learning and remote access, what are we missing out on and what are we gaining?