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Jan Merrill-Oldham
Jan Merrill-Oldham is Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian in the Harvard University Library and the Harvard College Library. She directs the work of the Weissman Preservation Center in the Harvard University Library and the Preservation & Imaging Department in the Harvard College Library. Before coming to Harvard Ms. Merrill-Oldham served in various capacities in the University of Connecticut Libraries and planned and developed the libraries’ preservation department.
She has served as consultant to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Preservation of Research Library Materials Committee and on the Board of Directors of Heritage Preservation, various committees of the Commission on Preservation and Access, the Northeast Document Conservation Center Advisory Committee; NISO committees on binding technologies; the Columbia University School of Library Service Conservation Education Programs Visiting Committee; the Connecticut Preservation Task Force and Committee on Alkaline Paper, numerous committees and executive committees of the American Library Association, and other groups.
Ms. Merrill-Oldham has presented many papers, lectures, and workshops over the course of more than 25 years; and has authored and edited many publications—most recently, with Nancy Carlson Schrock, “The Conservation of General Collections” in Preservation: Issues and Planning, edited by Paul N. Banks and Roberta Pilette (Chicago: American Library Association, 2000) and “Taking Care: An Informed Approach to Library Preservation” in To Preserve and Protect: The Strategic Stewardship of Cultural Resources (Washington: Library of Congress, 2002).