Conference Tour

One evening there were tours of one of the facilities at RIT.  It is called the Image Permanence Institute and they  provide cultural institutions, preservation scientists, and consumer preservation industries with significant research, publications, and tools to enable the preservation of image collections and materials.  In this room there is an experiment which involves the changes in objects that absorb moisture, and how they change with temperature.  So this is really cool - there are two small video cameras photographing these book binding from the left and right, so that the resulting stereo movie shows the bindings over time as they move around with the temperature.  Please click on the photo below to see all the white spots that have been painted on the bindings which the movies record.

This is another part of the tour in one of the laboratories.  It was fascinating to hear all about the experiments the institute is conducting, all to make sure that our books and photographs, and movie films will last for generations.