Taylor Pastor

This research was conducted at the Masonic Library and Museum of Indiana (MLMI) to discover what steps the MLMI can take to understand, protect, and store its historic book collection. Further, this project discovered what the major forms of deterioration are within the small library and museum, and how they can be mitigated through preventive conservation. Additionally, it informed the decision-making for a plan to improve the library for the sake of its collection.

This project was very important to me because it gave me the ability to practice my preventive conservation skills, and learn more about the logistics behind protecting a historic book collection. I learned the effects of unregulated temperature and humidity, leather deterioration, and dissociation.

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