This Site is the product of an Independent Study completed by Kayla Chioco & Rebecca Elder, students in the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at the University of Texas at Austin. Our goal was to demonstrate the ways in which technology could be harnessed to add to our knowledge about the art and science of the Conservation process. This collaborative effort has brought together two very different disciplines and has resulted in a greater understanding of the symbiotic relationship between Information Technology and Preservation/Conservation Studies.

We used a Canon XL-1 digital video camera and a Nikon Coolpix 995 with a microscopy adapter to document the conservation process. Editing and production was done on a Macintosh G4 using iMovie and FinalCut Pro. iDVD and DVD StudioPro were used to produce accompanying DVDs.

Rebecca Elder is a third year student in the conservator track of the Preservation and Conservation Studies program at The School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. She is employed as Conservation Intern at the Center for American History. Rebecca will finish her graduate degree by doing a two semester internship at the Harvard University Libraries.
Her electronic portfolio is available at http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~elder/Home/Home.htm.

Kayla received her Masters of Information Studies from The School of Information at The University of Texas in December 2002. She is currently an Information Architect and Interface Designer for Austin Usability in Austin, Texas.

Thanks to Quinn Stewart and Karen Pavelka for their patience and guidance, and to Brenda Gunn who allowed us to work on an amazing document from the Center for American History.