Jennifer Hain Teper Presenting at the 2025 Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation
Jennifer Hain Teper, Velde Professor and Preservation Librarian at the University of Illinois Libraries, will present at Syracuse University Libraries’ annual Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation. Hain Teper’s hybrid lecture, titled “Historic Scrapbooks in Libraries and Archives – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” will be held on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. EST in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons (Bird Library Room 114) and on Zoom. Registration is required for the Zoom webinar and is encouraged for in-person attendees.
A hands-on workshop, titled “Understanding Historic Scrapbooks and Their Preservation,” will be held the following day, Thursday, April 3, 2025, from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm on the 6th floor of Bird Library in the Antje Bultmann Lemke Seminar Room and the Joan Breier Brodsky ’67, G’68 Conservation Lab. The workshop is limited to 15 people, and advance registration is required. To register for the workshop, please email Max Wagh, SCRC Administrative Coordinator, at mlwagh@syr.edu.
All events are free to attend and open to the public.
The annual Brodsky Series for the Advancement of Library Conservation is endowed through a generous gift by William J. ’65, G’ 68 and Joan ’67, G’68 Brodsky. Celebrating its 20th year in 2025, the Series features prominent library conservators that promote and advance knowledge of library conservation theory, practice and application among wide audiences, both on campus and in the region.
Jennifer Hain Teper serves as the Velde Professor and Preservation Librarian at the University of Illinois Libraries overseeing conservation, collections care, digital preservation and digitization services throughout the library system. Before her current position began in 2009, she served as the head of conservation at the University of Illinois libraries from 2001-2008. Jennifer graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in August of 2000 with a MLIS and Certificate of Advanced Study in the Conservation and Preservation of Library and Archival Materials. She teaches several preservation and conservation related courses in the Graduate School of Information Science at the University of Illinois and also serves as an instructor at the Center for Collections Care. Her current research interests focus on the prioritization of preservation actions in academic and research libraries relative to holdings in shared print repositories and DEIA efforts within conservation education. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation.