Adopt-A-Conservation Treatment 

In 2007, The Friends of the Johns Hopkins University Libraries’ Acquisitions Committee initiated Adopt-A-Conservation Treatment.  This program allows the Friends  to collaborate with the Special Collections and Preservation departments in identifying materials in immediate need of conservation.  Criteria for selection are items whose condition has prevented them from being used and those with immediate research need by faculty and students.

As a world class research library, our special collections materials enable and enhance quality research.  With issues ranging from soiled, fragile and loose pages to worn covers and spines, conservation measures are needed to correct, reverse and/or prevent further deterioration of these items.  

The Adopt-a-Conservation Treatment program is designed to allow Friends and Donors to help support the level of conservation work needed by these items.  A selection of photographs documenting the various stages of conservation treatment may be seen by clicking on the title of the works listed.

Items being conserved during 2007-2008:

Tasso, Torquato. La Gerusalemme Liberata. Illus. Giambattista Piazzetta (Venezia 1745).

Dickens, Charles. Bleak House (London, Bradbury and Evans, [1852-53]).  First edition in original monthly parts. Learn more.

Audsley, George Ashdown. The Art of Chromolithography (London 1883).

Seller, John. Atlas Maritimus (London 1675).

The Johns Hopkins University, Summer School 1921.  Panoramic photograph. Learn more.

“Seven-Containers of Rolled Mysteries” Seven containers holding old, crumbling architectural drawings boxed up from Krieger and sent to LSC during a recent move.  This collection is unprocessed because items are too fragile or to difficult to unroll without causing damage.

E. Sachse, & Co.'s, Bird's Eye View of the City of Baltimore, 1869.