Karen Dabney, Conservator
112 Cato II
(814)865-0046
Email: kld25@psu.edu
Established in 2005, this unit is responsible for the examination, evaluation and conservation treatment (repair) of rare and valuable documents, photographs, books, ephemera, maps, posters, works of art on paper, and other collections within the Special Collections Library, other subject libraries and the branch campus libraries.
Circulating collections are preserved in the Collections Care unit.
The program is based at the Cato Park Library Annex II facility located at 3110 Rsearch Drive, State College, PA 16803.
Two labs- a wet lab and a dry lab occupy over 1,000 square feet for treatment and assessment work.
Our services include: preservation needs assessments and surveys of individual items and collections; consultations; recommendations on storage and exhibit; fabrication of custom storage enclosures, preservation planning, educational workshops and talks on conservation. For more services information, please visit our services page.
The University Libraries Conservator, Karen Dabney, has over twenty years of experience in the field of conservation, and obtained her Master of Science in Art Conservation from the University of Delaware/Winterthur Museum Program.
We employ these pieces of equipment in our conservation labs. Visit our equipment page.
ProjectsMore to come soon.
