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Preserving your Family's Treasures

Learn the best ways to preserve old photos, letters, maps and other items typically found in boxes in the attic or basement. Guest speaker: Deb Schiff, local history librarian at Chester Library.

Learn how to preserve your family's treasures and the importance of using archival quality materials. The last half hour of the program is dedicated to an interactive question and answer session during which attendees who bring in an item or two - a rare/old book, photo, letter, map, object - learn how best to keep their treasures safe for future generations.

Deb Schiff is the Local History Librarian at Chester Library in Morris County, the Archivist at the Plainfield Historical Society and a private preservation consultant for archives throughout New Jersey. 

The Somerset County Library System of New Jersey Common Heritage initiative has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these Library programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Will you need a special accommodation (including food allergy if applicable to the program)? If so, please contact the library and provide at least two weeks notice prior to the event date and the library will make every effort to honor all requests. Thereafter, requests will still be considered and may have less of a chance of being honored.

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