The group meets the first Tuesday, every two months for an hour of discussion.
The Care of Collections Reading Group explores and discusses open access articles covering preservation, collection care and collection wide conservation such as environmental monitoring, risk management, collection moves, etc. This activity provides an accountability partner for reading through the new or established research as a method of keeping our awareness high.
Reading choices are nominated and voted upon by the people who have signed up. If voting is very close i.e. one vote difference, we'll read the second ranking article for the following group meeting. Nominations are always welcome, the only criteria is that the text is open access. Publicly available conference presentations are also welcomed nominations.
The April 2026 text is:
Moon-Schott, L., & King, T. (2025). Consulting Stakeholders as a Basis for Decision-Making. Journal of Paper Conservation, 26(3–4), 85–97. doi 10.1080/18680860.2025.2587591
Please note, contact details are not kept from one session to the next. Please sign up for each session; you are interested in on a rolling basis.
The sign up form will be cleared the day before the Reading Group to ready it for the next session. This does NOT mean the session is cancelled.
