Preserving Your Family Treasures
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
5:30 p.m.

Learn about caring for your important family items with Donia Conn of the Northeast Document Conservation Center. Ms. Conn will discuss the preservation of papers, photos, and other family treasures so future generations can appreciate your family's experiences, heritage, and history. Using actual artifacts and mementos, Ms. Conn will discuss the display, storage, and care of some of the most common and most cherished items in family collections. Participants are encouraged to bring items that can be transported safely for examination and discussion.

Donia Conn was introduced to bookbinding through a required art class at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. While a Ph. D. student in Mathematics at the University of Wisconsin -Madison, she started working with Jim Dast in the library’s book repair department. She earned her MLIS with Advanced Certificate in Conservation from the University of Texas-Austin. Donia has interned with Tony Cains at Trinity College, Dublin and J. Frank Mowery at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC and has worked as a rare book and paper conservator in academic institutions across the US. Donia has also presented several preservation, conservation and disaster planning and recovery workshops throughout the Northeast. She is currently Field Services Representative at the Northeast Document Conservation Center.