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A conservation technician examining an artwork under a microscope at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The conservation and restoration of books, manuscripts, documents, and ephemera is an activity dedicated to extending the life of items of historical and personal value made primarily from paper, parchment, and leather.
The conservation and restoration of parchment constitutes the care and treatment of parchment materials which have cultural and historical significance. Typically undertaken by professional book and document conservators , this process can include preventive measures which protect against future deterioration as well as specific treatments to ...
Parchment provides an ideal surface for illumination, and was even placed into books which used other page materials in patches to allow for a good painting or illuminating surface (Alexander 35). This prevalent use of parchment provides some of the historical significance of illuminated manuscripts.
R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity University of Texas at San Antonio: 1969 34,864 747 $287 R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity University of Texas at Tyler: 1971 9,442 259 $154.96 R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity University of Texas Permian Basin: 1973 5,283 644 $23
This is a list of school districts in Texas, sorted by Education Service Center (ESC) Region and then by County.. There are multiple classifications of school districts. Among them are independent school districts, common school districts, municipal school districts, rural high school districts, industrial training school districts, rehabilitation districts for the handicapped, and several ...
About 420,000 students, or 8% of Texas' 5.5 million public school students, attend charter campuses, according to TEA data.
Early College High School at Texas A&M University-San Antonio; Gervin Charter Academy; Great Hearts Schools (Monte Vista North, Northern Oaks) Harmony Science Academy - San Antonio; IDEA Charter Schools (Brackenridge, Carver, Eastside, Ewing Halsell, Ingram Hills, Judson, Mays, Monterrey Park, Najim, South Flores, Walzem)
In the United States most repositories require archivists to have a degree from an ALA-accredited library school. [33] Similar institutions exist in countries outside the US. Since 2010, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has enhanced funding for library and archives conservation education in three major conservation programs. [34]