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Finding the Poetry in Museum Environmental Monitoring

While caring for the special collections at the University of Arizona Poetry Center Library, Sarah Kortemeir worries about relative humidity, data loggers and environmental monitoring—while also serving as the library’s director. Read about how Conserv helps her monitor the collections, so she has more time to do what she does best.
Man with grey short hair in a blue shirt examining shark jaw in a museum storage

Environmental monitoring upgrade: Paleolithic collections, not equipment!

Jun Ebersole is a paleontologist at McWade Science Center in Alabama, but for years, he was using outdated and unreliable monitors in his collections management and environmental monitoring. Now, the only thing archaic in his collections facility are the fossils, not the tools he’s using to preserve them!

Conserv Welcomes Ana Martins

Meet Ana Martins, who is helping Conserv with research partnerships and developing connections with cultural institutions in Europe.

Conserv: Powered by Your Insights

To create effective preventive conservation tools, Conserv takes input/feedback very seriously, and uses it to continually upgrade the user experience.

Conserv Welcomes Melissa King

Melissa King is one of Conserv's newest team members! She comes to us from a Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in Preventive Conservation at the Smithsonian, and she is eager to help us build our connections with the preservation community.