This week, there are two opportunities — one in Ottawa and another in Montreal — to learn about preservation techniques from conservator Kyla Ubbink.
Wednesday, October 12, 7:00 p.m., Ottawa Public Library, Nepean Centrepoint Branch
Not Fade Away: Digitizing and Preserving Family Photos
Keeping and digitizing family photographs can be a monumental challenge. From long-term care to digitization, this 90-minute talk will focus on storage solutions, as well as digitization techniques and maintaining digital files.
Free, but registration required. Register online or call Ottawa Public Library at 613-580-2940.
Saturday, October 15, 10:30 a.m., Quebec Family History Society, Beaconsfield
Keeping the Past for the Present and Future: Preservation Techniques for the Home Archivist
Stop the deterioration of your families historic documents, letters, photographs, albums, books, memorabilia and scrapbooks through the practice of archival preservation. Learn how to avoid damage caused by pollutants, poor climate, light, pests, and mould through proper boxing, housing and storage. Ms. Ubbink will demonstrate how to clean books and paper, remove clips and staples, and separate photographs from ‘sticky’ album pages.
This presentation will be free and open to the public. Details on the Quebec Family History Society website.
Ms. Ubbink of Ubbink Book & Paper Conservation provides professional conservation, restoration and preservation consultation services to institutions, galleries, antiquities dealers, collectors, researchers, and genealogists.
I watched three short videos taken during a workshop Ms. Ubbink conducted at the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa’s conference in September. She has a friendly, energetic presentation style, which helps make her advice easy to understand. You will find these video clips on BIFHSGO’s Facebook page. Enter “Kyla” in the search box on the right side of the Facebook page if you have trouble finding them.
