Group Committee

Francesca Whymark ACR is an accredited book conservator and works at the British Library in London. She has a BA in History of Art & Architecture and Italian from Trinity College Dublin (2006) and studied Book Conservation at Camberwell College of Arts, gaining a Foundation Degree (2010) and Masters (2011), before joining the British Library in 2011.

She has a particular interest in book conservation terminology and documentation. She worked as a research assistant during the early stages of the Language of Bindings project and was a founding member of the Icon Documentation Network. She has served on the Book & Paper group Events & Training sub-committee and was managing editor for the Adapt & Evolve conference postprints. She was a member of the organising committee for the inaugural IIC Student & Emerging Conservators conference. She is currently representing Conservation and Collection Care within a major infrastructure project at the British Library, which aims to unify the Library’s collection metadata assets on a single, sustainable, standards-based infrastructure offering improved options for access, collaboration and open reuse.