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Becky Fifield
- Apr 25, 2016
- 2 min
Prepping for the American Institute for Conservation / Canadian Association for Conservation Meeting
Preservation professionals are getting ready for the joint American Institute for Conservation/ Canadian Association for Conservation’s...
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Becky Fifield
- Mar 17, 2016
- 1 min
Survey for Coll. Managers and Registrars about Developing a Prev. Conservation Major at Winterthur
As collection managers and registrars, we are charged with a wide array of responsibilities in administrating the balance between...
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Becky Fifield
- Mar 15, 2016
- 2 min
Share the Care: AIC’s Collection Care Network and the International Association of Museum Facility A
Think about it: how much time do you spend working with colleagues to achieve preservation-conducive conditions at your institution and...
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Becky Fifield
- Feb 25, 2016
- 3 min
The Brutal and the Beautiful New York State Museum
This weekend, Dr. V, Jake, and myself went up to Albany to visit the New York State Museum. We had the very good luck of running into...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 21, 2016
- 1 min
Get Ready! Snow in the Mid-Atlantic
Stay safe, stay warm, and make sure you’ve updated your emergency plan, whether at home, at work, or protecting our cultural heritage....
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 14, 2016
- 4 min
Crafting an Elevator Pitch for Preservation
Originally published at rebeccafifieldpreservation.com. If you’ve ever taken a management or marketing course, you’ve probably heard of...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 12, 2016
- 2 min
The Crazy Things We Do for Cultural Heritage
I was at a children’s playgroup in Beacon, New York yesterday with my son. Yet again, I was trying to pull together in a coherent thread...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 8, 2016
- 1 min
“Omelettes – Plain or with Rum”
What? Where in culinary history did I miss the inclusion of rum in an omelet? New York Public Library announced recently the availability...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 5, 2016
- 2 min
Apple of My Eye: Lead Pesticide Use in 1920s Orchards
Orchard workers at Mt. Pleasant Orchard, near Havre de Grace, Maryland, c. 1915. Over the Christmas holiday, I unearthed a small journal...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 3, 2016
- 3 min
Railroad Dreams: Danbury Railway Museum
If you mourn the destruction of the late, great Pennsylvania Station in NYC, you’ll find this glass heralding the coming of the new...
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Becky Fifield
- Jan 2, 2016
- 1 min
Snapshots from New Orleans
Aiji is a taxi driver. He is also the founder of the first burrito bar in Rwanda and a vegan chef. For right now, it’s the taxi while...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 31, 2015
- 2 min
An Unfortunate Title for a “Great” Article on Penn Station
David W. Dunlap writes the rather fun Building Blocks column for The New York Times. On December 30, 2015, his contribution was titled...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 30, 2015
- 2 min
Samuel Adams’s Mother Was a Fifield
RL Fifield vacuuming samplers with a dental vacuum in the old Textile Conservation Lab, MFA Boston, 2001. Back in the early aughts, I was...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 13, 2015
- 1 min
Great Collection Care Webinars at no cost!
Under the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation, the Connecting to Collection Care (C2CC) resource continues to build on...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 5, 2015
- 1 min
Wanderlust Fodder: Atlas Obscura’s Interactive Map of Roadtrips in American Literature
Mr. I sent me a link recently to Atlas Obscura’s “The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature’s Most Epic Road Trips.” It is...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 27, 2015
- 1 min
Tune into AIC’s Cost Effective and Sustainable Packing, Moving, and Storage Webinar on Sustainable C
AIC is hosting two webinars on sustainable conservation. On December 1 at 2pm EST, I’ll join Simon Lambert and T. Ashley McGrew in...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 17, 2015
- 3 min
ARCS and PACCIN at New Orleans: Collections Stewardship’s Bright Future
Originally published at rebeccafifieldpreservation.com. Lots of folks go to New Orleans for conferences. Within the distinctive streets...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 5, 2015
- 2 min
Thomas Bewick, Newcastle Wood Engraver (1753-1828)
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Cherryburn, Northumberland, National Trust. NT 530359. In digging through the British...
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Becky Fifield
- May 11, 2015
- 2 min
Museum Monday: Off to Miami! American Institute for Conservation’s Annual Meeting
I’m headed to Miami for the American Institute for Conservation’s Annual Meeting. I look forward to seeing friends and hearing about the...
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