Lecture 11 - Roger Williams

Roger Williams, Book & Paper Conservator, Northwestern University Libraries

Overview

The Adaptable Conservation Book Support (ACBS) is a tool designed in collaboration with students at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering. The ACBS secures books of various sizes in an open position at any desired angle to allow conservators to treat the book's interior. This is useful especially when working with books that cannot safely open beyond 90 degrees. The ACBS is intended to be both DIY and open-design. A shared supply list and assembly instructions allows other to build their own (at a cost of roughly 80 USD) and suggest design improvements and alterations.

About the speaker

Roger Williams is Book & Paper Conservator at Northwestern University Libraries, where he was formerly the Conservation Fellow. He received his MA in Conservation Studies from West Dean College in fall 2015. He previously worked at the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and Smithsonian Libraries.