By the Book: An expert presentation on rare book conservation

Join Conservator María Castañeda Delgado (MA, 2020) as she shares care-taking practices that honour the material traditions of the Jewish Public Library's rarest books. This presentation will shed light on different types of bindings and materials used in a book’s composition, and attendees will learn about the dos and don’ts of responsible repair and see first-hand examples from our Rare Books Collection. 

Castañeda Delgado is an independent conservator of works on paper and books with a studio based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. Castañeda Delgado holds a Master's in Art History from Concordia University and a Bachelor's degree with honors in Cultural Heritage Conservation from the Escuela de Conservación y Restauración de Occidente in Guadalajara, Mexico. She has worked in the conservation field for over 10 years in Mexico, Italy, and Canada. 

Since 2016, Castañeda Delgado has established herself in Canada, working as an independent paper and book conservator at multiple institutions, such as Library and Archives Canada and the City of Ottawa Archives, as well as collaborating with established conservation studios in Quebec. Her clients include the McCord Stewart Museum, McGill’s Rare Books and Special Collections, the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, and The Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture. 

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