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<\/a>The UI Libraries Preservation & Conservation department would like to welcome two new(ish) staff members, Justin Baumgartner and Elizabeth Stone. They join us as members of the Keith\/Albee project team. They will be working together, along with other UI Libraries staff, to stabilize and digitize the Keith\/Albee collection. Both Justin and Elizabeth are University of Iowa graduates who are no strangers to employment at the UI Libraries. <\/p>\nElizabeth Stone started on July 21, 2014 as the Keith\/Albee Project Conservator. She is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa Center for the Book<\/a> where she studied bookbinding, letterpress printing, and book history. As a student, she worked in Preservation & Conservation salvaging flood-damaged items from the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library<\/a> and the African American Museum of Iowa<\/a>. <\/p>\n Justin Baumgartner started on July 22, 2014 as the Keith\/Albee Digital Project Librarian. He is a recent graduate of the University of Iowa School of Library & Information Science<\/a>. As a student, he worked in the UI Libraries Special Collections & University Archives and interned for the Digital History Project <\/a>at the Iowa City Public Library.<\/p>\n The duo will shepherd 125-150 oversize scrapbooks through conservation and digitization workflows during the next three years. Visit the growing digital collection at digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/keithalbee <\/a>.<\/p>\n The Keith\/Albee project is a three-year project to stabilize, digitize, and provide online access to the Keith\/Albee collection which documents the activity of a prominent vaudeville theater company through more than 40 years of business. The records chronicle the expansion of the Keith\/Albee circuit, changes in its leadership, and the eventual decline of vaudeville.<\/a><\/p>\n