By Diane Sawyer

Wondering why some of you might have seen Albert Rozo running around staging photo shoots with other members of his department last week? Well the department of Digitization and Preservation was actively participating in a project called #5DaysOfPreservation, an idea formed by Kevin Driedger, a librarian at the Library of Michigan in Lansing. Kevin’s idea was to invite libraries, archives, museums, commercial firms, and others to share photos each workday of what preservation looked like for them that day between July 14-18. Penn State’s Digitization and Preservation department jumped at the chance to showcase what all we had to offer and submitted photos each day to the tumblr page specifically set up by Kevin. Photos of our digital equipment, binding processes, staff cleaning sooty drawings from the Coal and Coke Heritage Center from Fayette campus, encapsulation, and moisture readings were part of our submissions. All in all, the #5DaysOfPreservation project turned out to be a huge success with over 300 photographs sent in from around the world.

Collage created by Albert Rozo

To view the submissions, follow this link: http://5daysofpreservation.tumblr.com/
To learn more about Kevin Driedger, his project, and his blog, follow this link: http://librarypreservation2.blogspot.com/