MRCG News & Announcements
Job Opportunity: Head of Preservation at Iowa State University Library
The Iowa State University Library seeks an engaging leader to serve as Head of Preservation. The Head of Preservation provides vision and leadership for a well-established preservation program for the Library’s collections across formats, facilities, and functional areas. The Head is responsible for overseeing staff who ensure immediate and long-term access to a wide variety of resources in a manner that both safeguards materials and promotes their use through collections care, preventive and interventive conservation of Special Collections and University Archives materials….
2023 MRCG Emerging Professionals Scholarship
The call for scholarship applications to attend the 2023 MRCG Annual Meeting is now closed.
If you are an early career collections care professional and are interested in attending the meeting, you are eligible to apply for the scholarship.
Due to limited funding, the total award will cover the cost of registration and up to approximately $500 to assist with the additional cost of travel and accommodations.
Job Opportunity: General Collections Conservator/Preservation Coordinator
General Collections Conservator/Preservation Coordinator
University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Position Overview
The General Collections Conservator/Preservation Coordinator has primary responsibility for general collections, but also directs the housing and cleaning projects for special collections.
Beloit College Center for Collections Care now accepting scholarship applications
The Center for Collections Care is pleased to share that we are now accepting scholarship applications for the 2023 season. $250 for online courses and $650 for in-person courses. Scholarships have been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy Demands Wisdom.
MRCG Membership Change Announcement
Our first-ever virtual vote in January had a response rate of over half our members. 91% voted "yes" to change our renewal date to September 1 of each year (See the results in the post!).
Moving forward, anyone with a 2022 membership will see their membership benefits extended until August 31, 2023.
(If you are unsure about your dues status, please see the 2023 Membership Directory so you can see if you are up-to-date on your dues and getting access to all our membership perks and members-only portal on the new website.)
Job Opportunity: Digitization & Conservation Project Manager
The Digitization & Conservation Project Manager is responsible for managing complex, interdepartmental workflows and projects for the Preservation and Digitization program. Performs the high-level functions of intake, assessment, and management of formal projects and patron requests. Plans and analyzes departmental projects, including scope, timeline projection, affected parties, exclusions, risks, allocation of staff time, workflow, and other factors, informing project partners across departments of requirements and impacts prior to start of projects.
Sarah Casto Joins the Ohio State University Libraries
We are happy to announce that Sarah Casto has accepted the Photograph and Paper Conservator position at the Ohio State University Libraries.
Sarah will be responsible for performing conservation treatments of photographic materials and works on paper in support of the stewardship of special collections. She will coordinate the preparation of rare and special collections materials for digitization, supervise staff and students and advise on workflows and best practices for the Conservation unit.
2023 SERCA Annual Meeting – Hurricanes Hardly (?) Happen
Join us for the 2023 SERCA Annual Meeting in Macon, GA from March 10 to 12th, 2023!
Expanding on the preparedness topics covered in our last two virtual annual meetings, the 2023 Southeast Regional Conservation Association (SERCA) meeting will look at the challenges in conservation due to increasing natural disasters and climate change. Speaker Rebecca Kennedy of Curae Collections Care will discuss evacuations, establishing roles and priorities, and cover various scenarios that we may encounter in the Southeast. As part of the meeting, Rebecca will also lead a half-day recovery workshop and we will have an Angels Project at the meeting site.