Welcome to the UH-M Preservation Department

We have moved from the basement . . . . . .To the 5th Floor of the Hamilton Library Addition. [Bindery section] Blaine Kashiwaeda prepares books to send to Northwest Library Bindery.[Reformatting section] Brandon Arakaki makes phtocopies of brittle books in reformatting.
[Reformatting Section] Stephen Lee works for Advanced Micro-Image and has just finished microfilming the newspaper <i>Garden Island</i>.[Pest Management] The Pest Management Team: Aaron Lau, Michael Damaso, Evan Blackwell and Kyle Hamada, clean books after they have been frozen.[Pest Management] Aaron Lau and Kyle Hamada prepare books for pest extermination in the new Wei-To freezers.
[Conservation Program] Shari Kam uses the ultra-sonic welder to encapsulate a map.The new Preservation Department includes a paper treatment lab that will allow us to do highly specialized conservation treatment of the collections.