Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund
Description:
This year, The Smithsonian Libraries (SIL) was given a monetary award by the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF) to re-house 558 folio volumes of special materials collections housed at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Library (CHMDL). These items were identified as requiring housing/re-housing by contract book conservators who conducted the CCPF funded condition survey <a href="http://blog.library.si.edu/2014/03/the-fix-building-a-custom-made-book-measurer/#more-'" class="more-link">more »</a>