Until 1997, she worked as a book conservator in the San Francisco Public Library, a job that enabled her to study traditional type fonts, which became central to her work.

Ms. Steier is book conservator for the Library Company of Philadelphia and a teacher at Prints and Progress, a community-based art program for children.

The exhibit was organized by Frank Mowery, president of the Guild of Book Workers and the museum's book conservator.

RBS students, typically about 40 years old, include curators and rare book librarians, academics, antiquarian booksellers, book conservators and binders, and book collectors.

Jeffrey Peachey, a book conservator, tool maker and historian [1] has published blog posts on one of Diehl's backing hammers.

My name is Yasmeen Khan, I'm a rare book conservator at the Library of Congress.

"I don't know what's going to happen to our gardens," Ursula Mitra, a book conservator, said as she paged through a scrapbook of clippings about Pomander Walk.

The novel tells the fictional story of Hanna Heath, an Australian book conservator who is responsible for restoring the Haggadah.

He served as President of the AIC from 1978-80, the first president to be a professional book conservator.

"The main task is to stabilize the collection, which is in very bad shape," said Henry Pelham Burn, one of the society's book conservators.