{"id":2275,"date":"2002-10-07T08:49:53","date_gmt":"2002-10-07T13:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/preservation\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2002-10-07T08:49:53","modified_gmt":"2002-10-07T13:49:53","slug":"russian-museum-officers-tour-preservation-department-october-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2002\/10\/07\/russian-museum-officers-tour-preservation-department-october-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Museum Officers Tour Preservation Department, October 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 7th, 2002 the UI Preservation Department hosted a tour for twelve  Russian museum officers. The group was traveling the U.S. as part of an  international visitor program on museum management.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Kraft welcomed  the visitors on behalf of the department and the library Director. She then  offered comments on our disaster response planning and the various initiatives  involved. Gary Frost also welcomed the group and presented a display of binding  models that represent the long history of sewn board structures associated with  the Eastern Church tradition. Jim Croft offered background and discussion on  bone tool technology and linen thread. Kristin Baum described our current  efforts to digitize the department monitoring of storage conditions, which are  based on Climate Notebook\/ PEM datalogger technology developed at the Image  Permanence Institute. Kristin also described her project on natural dyeing of  hand made papers. Lucy David, our volunteer in the Conservation Lab, described  her work in book repair. Finally, Carlo Mori described his training and projects  as an Intern in the department.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2276\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/russian2002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2276\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/russian2002.jpg\" alt=\"Russian visitors and Gary Frost (in blue) listen to Jim Croft (center) explain how the Russian import of flax played an important role in bookbinding history.\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/russian2002.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/russian2002-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/files\/2010\/09\/russian2002-431x300.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian visitors and Gary Frost (in blue) listen to Jim Croft (center) explain how the Russian import of flax played an important role in bookbinding history.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The group was enthusiastic throughout the one-hour tour and asked many  important questions. The entire exchange was supportedby very talented  translation, but the immediacy of the exchange was apparent by all the  animation, on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Their visit to the University of Iowa also  included a visit to the Iowa Women&#8217;s Archives, the Museum of Natural History,  University of Iowa Museum of Art, and the Medical Museum in the University of  Iowa Hospitals &amp; Clinics. Their trip to Iowa is also to include visits to  the Iowa Children&#8217;s Museum, the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, and the Herbert  Hoover Presidential Museum &amp; Library, among other stops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 7th, 2002 the UI Preservation Department hosted a tour for twelve Russian museum officers. The group was traveling the U.S. as part of an international visitor program on museum management. Nancy Kraft welcomed the visitors on behalf of the department and the library Director. She then offered comments on our disaster response planning<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/2002\/10\/07\/russian-museum-officers-tour-preservation-department-october-2002\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Russian Museum Officers Tour Preservation Department, October 2002&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/conservation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}