Cleveland History Blog: Celebrating Paper: The 25th Anniversary Ohio Preservation Council Symposium

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Celebrating Paper: The 25th Anniversary Ohio Preservation Council Symposium

Press release received:

"Celebrating Paper: The 25th Anniversary Ohio Preservation Council Symposium." The Msgr. Joseph Jessing Conference Center , Columbus , OH. September 17, 2009, 9:00AM-4:00PM.

The Ohio Preservation Council is celebrating a quarter-century of protecting our shared heritage and you are invited to attend! Please join us for a day of informative presentations, demonstrations, and panel discussions on the history, art and preservation of books and paper. Keynote speaker Nicholas Basbanes is an internationally known author whose first book, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year that has sold more than 120,000 copies.

Online registration is available via the OPC website: http://opc.ohionet.org/symposiumregistrationinfo.html.

The complete symposium program can be found here: http://www.ica-artconservation.org/education/OPCSymposium.pdf.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Days Inn & Suites in Worthington , OH . Additional information can be found here: http://opc.ohionet.org/symposiumregistrationinfo.html.

Labels: Intermuseum Conservation Association, paper preservation, Workshop

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News, commentary, information and musings on the history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of Northeastern Ohio, particularly its bridges, railroads, maps and historic landmarks and events. Using new web-based technologies, such as GIS, to improve libraries' ability to increase access to local history. More recently I'm adding information on the arts, particularly outdoor sculpture.