BC Libraries Conservation & Preservation Manager Profiled in BC Magazine

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On any given day, BC Libraries’ Conservation and Preservation Manager Nora Dempsey may expertly repair a rare book from the 1500s, identify paper eating bugs hiding out in the library stacks,  monitor library humidity levels, or vacuum mold off of an archival collection documenting prison reform. Learn more about Nora’s work protecting and preserving library resources in Boston College Magazine’s recent article “The Conservator.”

A woman with dark curly hair peers over her black-framed glasses, out of focus, level with a book in the foreground that her left hand presses on the edge of a table. A needle pokes upward past the book’s binding.
August 11, 2026 — Nora Dempsey, Conservation & Preservation Manager, Burns Library (Photo credit: Caitlin Cunningham and Matthew Healey for Boston College Magazine)

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