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Beth Morris, Librarian and Conservator-In-Training

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Courses in Book and Paper Conservation, Preservation, and Collections Care

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  • Late 18th Century French Bindings with Jeff Peachey, Georgia Archives, November 2017

  • Adhesives in Conservation: Bridging the Gap Between Industry and Conservators, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, September 22, 2017

  • Leather Conservation with James Reid-Cunningham, North Bennet Street School, July 2017

  • Introduction to Blind and Gold Tooling on Leather with Samuel Feinstein, North Bennet Street School, July 2017

  • Paper and Book Intensive Annual Working Sabbatical, Spring 2017

  • Durable Paper Bindings with Henry Hebert

  • Mokuhanga: Traditional Japanese Water-based Woodblock Printing with Katie Baldwin

  • Considering Book Mechanics with Olivia Primanis

  • Cloth Case Bindings: Their History and Repair, Georgia Archives, Fall Course with Jeff Peachey, 2016

  • Paper and Book Intensive. Annual Working Sabbatical: Let’s Get Small: Miniature Bookbindings with James Reid-Cuningham; 4 Days, 4 Tools with Bob Walp; Two Semi-limp Parchment Binding Styles with Anne Hillam. Spring 2016

  • Paper and Book Intensive. Annual Working Sabbatical: Variations in Case Binding with Chris McAfee; A Sheetathon! with Steve Miller; Field and Sketch Books: A Rollicking Romp Through the Making of Books On-The-Go with Martha Kearsley. Spring 2015

  • Paper and Book Intensive, Annual Working Sabbatical: Paper and Place with Ann Marie Kennedy; Printing in Relief with Ryan O’Malley; Pennsylvania German/Anabaptist Bindings in America before 1880 with Chela Metzger and Erin Hammeke, Spring 2014

  • Fundamentals of Preservation, ALA-ALCTS Online Course, Spring 2014

    • Certificate Awarded

  • Library Book Repairs: Recase, Creative Arts Workshop Fall Course with Susan Klein, 2013Book Sewings By Hand, Two-Day Workshop with Richard Horton, 2013

  • Bookbinding I, Creative Arts Workshop Spring Course with Paulette Rosen, 2013

  • Clamshell Boxes, Creative Arts Workshop Winter Course with Paulette Rosen, 2013

  • Basic Paper Repair, Northeast Document Conservation Center Course with Donia Conn, 2012

  • DIY Books and Boxes, Cooper Union Summer Course with Susan Mills, 2012

  • Protective Boxes, Slipcases…and More, ARLIS/NA Conference Workshop, 2012

  • Preservation, UNC-SILS Coursework with Beth Doyle, 2009

  • Digital Preservation, UNC-SILS Coursework with Carolyn Hank, 2009

  • Prague, Czech Republic- Libraries and Librarianship in the Czech Republic, summer seminar with UNC-SILS (Summer 2009)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS and PRESENTATIONS

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  • Presenter, Curator’s Talk and Opening Reception for ‘Moving Earth: “Capability Brown, Humphry Repton, and the Creation of the English Landscape’ exhibition, April 8, 2016

  • Session Moderator, ARLIS/NA 43rd Annual Conference, Linked Open Data: Interconnectivity Amplified, March 22, 2015

  • Presenter, ACRL Arts Midwinter Virtual Forum Discussion, ‘Optimizing Collections Care: Configuring Strategies and Options for Unusual Art Library Collections,’ January 28th, 2015. Presentation recording, slides and bibliography available: http://www.ala.org/acrl/aboutacrl/directoryofleadership/sections/arts/artswebsite/conferencesa/conferences/pastconferences.

  • Presenter, Library Staff Appreciation and Recognition: Accomplishments on View, Yale University Libraries, ‘Creating Meaningful Bibliographies at the Yale Center for British Art Reference Library and Archives,’ May 29, 2014

  • Presenter, ARLIS/NA 42nd Annual Conference, Retooling Art Reference and Information Services: Collaborative Tools, Strategies, and Models, May 3, 2014

  • Session Moderator, ARLIS/NA 41st Annual Conference, Collaborating for Discovery: Expanding Landscapes for Digital Collections through Joint Ventures, April 26, 2013

Beth Morris has a BA in Fine Art with concentrations in Painting and Ceramics. She received her MSLS from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2010 and began pursuing training in Book and Paper Conservation in 2012. Currently she is the Assistant Librarian at the Yale Center for British Art, Reference Library and Archives where she performs simple to complex treatments on a range of books and paper-based media. After creating the first formalized Preservation Program for the YCBA Reference Library and Archives Collection in 2012, Morris began intensively training through a number of courses and workshops to build a vital understanding of the field of Book Conservation. An article was published detailing the process of creating the program in Art Documentation in 2015 titled,  ‘Optimizing Collections Care: Configuring Strategies and Options for Unique Art Library Collections.’  Building on three years of training in bookbinding, historical book structures, basic paper and book repair methods, preservation for libraries, and chemical processes of materials, she began training under Head Paper Conservator Soyeon Choi (YCBA) in July 2015 and continues to train in Paper Conservation for works of art on paper on a weekly basis.

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