Weissman Preservation Center (WPC) focuses on conservation treatments of rare and special collections of Harvard Libraries, specializing in books, paper, and photographs. Many of the special collections are from Houghton Library, but not limited to. There are over 70 libraries in Harvard, including about 19 million items. Also, WPC is not the only library conservation lab at Harvard. There are a general collections lab and a few other satellite labs located in each library, such as Business and Law Libraries.

For my first-year summer internship, I spent five weeks at the Weissman Preservation Center (WPC) of Harvard University Library. With the supervision of book conservators, Alan Puglia, Katherine Beaty, and Catherine Badot-Costello, I completed three treatments on leather-bound books, exploring different repair materials. Besides the treatments, I was involved in various lab activities and visited several local conservation labs and cultural institutions.

This internship was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.