{"id":3190,"date":"2026-10-22T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T13:19:16","slug":"bc-libraries-conservation-preservation-manager-profiled-in-bc-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/bc-libraries-conservation-preservation-manager-profiled-in-bc-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Libraries Conservation &amp; Preservation Manager Profiled in BC Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On any given day, BC Libraries\u2019 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,&nbsp; monitor library humidity levels, or vacuum mold off of an archival collection documenting prison reform. Learn more about Nora\u2019s work protecting and preserving library resources in <em>Boston College Magazine\u2019<\/em>s recent article \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc.edu\/content\/bc-web\/sites\/bc-magazine\/fall-2026-issue\/features\/the-conservator.html\">The Conservator<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"647\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/nora-stitching-book.jpg\" alt=\"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\u2019s binding.\" class=\"wp-image-3194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/nora-stitching-book.jpg 970w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/nora-stitching-book-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/nora-stitching-book-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">August 11, 2026 &#8212; Nora Dempsey, Conservation &amp; Preservation Manager, Burns Library (Photo credit: Caitlin Cunningham and Matthew Healey for <em>Boston College Magazine<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On any given day, BC Libraries\u2019 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,&nbsp; monitor library humidity levels, or vacuum mold off of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"series":[],"coauthors":[120],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}