Browsing by Author "Bernier, Brenda"
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Powder Struggle: How a Contaminated Rare Book Collection Led to a New Paradigm of Collaboration at Harvard
Avedian, John; Bernier, Brenda (SAGE Publications, 2023-03-16)In 2015 staff in Harvard University’s Widener Library discovered an unidentified white powder in a few early twentieth-century books in Persian and Urdu languages that had been acquired four years previously from a rare ... -
Specular Reflection FTIR: A Non-Contact Method for Analyzing Coatings on Photographs and Other Cultural Materials
McClelland, Arthur; Bulat, Elena; Bernier, Brenda; Murphy, Erin L. (Informa UK Limited, 2019-10-26)Cultural heritage objects present a special set of challenges to analyze chemically. Often micro-sampling or even contacting the object is not appropriate or deemed too risky for fragile surfaces. Fourier Transform Infrared ...