Abigail Quandt will continue her conservation work on
manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery for another year on an NEH
grant.
The Columbia University conservation interns for this year are:
Rosemary Fallon, who will be interning at the Library of Congress in
the Book Section; Hilary Kaplan, at the Humanities Research Center
in Austin; Susan Lunas, at UC-Berkeley; and Nary Pound, with
Nicholas Pickwoad, private conservator and Advisor on Book
Conservation to the National Trust, in England.
Lisa Mibach, formerly Chief Conservator for the Provincial
Museum of Alberta, has accepted the position of Director of the
Intermuseum Conservation Laboratory in Oberlin, Ohio.
John Perkins, formerly of Parks Canada Historic Resource
Conservation in Halifax, is now working with the Getty Conservation
Institute in California.
Shannon Zachary started working with Marilyn Weidner in November
on an NMA grant to develop techniques using Ms. Weidner new moisture
chamber/suction table/ultrasonic humidifier/air filter system.
Vicky Adamitis is the new preservation officer at Stanford
University.
Annagret Hunter-Elsenbach won the Canadian Competition for the
Germaine de Coster International Prize contest for designer binders
and represented Canada at the International Contest and Exhibition
in Paris recently.
Kathy Orlenko began work in September at the Walters Art Gallery
on an NEA-funded project to rehouse about 600 bound volumes in the
manuscript collection.