We would like to thank the Mellon Foundation for the years of generous funding in support of the shared Library and Archive Conservation Education (LACE) Program. Since our Mellon grant has ended, there is no longer external support of the classes, workshops, and internships that compose the LACE curriculum, however, we continue to welcome applicants interested in specializing in library and archive conservation. We will continue to have a Guest Lecturer in Book Conservation to mentor and supervise their treatments. The LACE curriculum continues to offer three online courses that are open to all interested students at no charge: Issues in Conserving Archive Collections, Identification and Preservation of Machine-Readable Media, and Preservation Management (including modules on digitization and surveying collections). Two additional in-person classes are offered every other year and are open to students of all programs: Manufacture and Conservation of Parchment is held for one week in January in Buffalo, Historical Book Structures Practicum is held for one month in the summer at NYU. These are no longer required courses and the potential costs and course fees will be determined when offered.
Our past library and archive conservation specialization students have spent their third-year internships at the Library of Congress, Columbia University Library, National Archives & Records Administration, Weissman Preservation Center at Harvard Libraries, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Boston Athenaeum, New York Universities Library, University Library Leiden in the Netherlands, UCLA Library Conservation Center, New-York Historical Society Library, Stanford University Libraries, University of Iowa Libraries, and the Folger Shakespeare Library.
