Preservation Tour (Continue from July 8, 2009)

After meeting with Claudia Merson, I met with Sarah, who gave me a preservation tour. Her occupations deals with preserving and exhibiting historical items, like books. She works with two other students from Yale, trioging over 140 thousand books. In other words working to fix historical books, from the 13th century to the 19th century, that might have gotten damaged either during travel/transport or aging, by the ones who are the most damage to ones that can last longer without being fixed. Some of the books she has and tries to preserve were made with materials that over time have become deteriorated, like for example books with paper made of wood pulp have deteriorated more than paper made with cotton. Sarah really enjoys her job because she's doing a lot of hands on work and also being a part of preserving historical items and some of the world's finest items in the world, so that others in the future can see and learn about the history of medicine and of science. During the tour I also learned some fun fact like the first paper was made of cotton, then later with wood pulp and also with animal skins, like calves. I also learned that it wasn't until the 1950s or 1960s that women were allowed to come to Yale to work and get an education.