Sample Submission

In Email:

Dear Editors of “InfoBlitz,”

My name is Melissa Lowe and I have attached my editorial discussing my experience preparing and documenting leather samples for analysis of conservation treatment efficacy.

Thank you for your consideration.

Melissa Lowe, GSLIS 2014
NetID@illinois.edu

In Word Document:

Melissa Lowe, 2014 – Special Collections, Administration and Management
“I Did it For Science!: Cutting Up Leather Books to Study Conservation Treatments”
Conservation Treatments of Leather – Research Development
Students interested in Conservation, Preservation, Books Arts, and the History of the Book

Here would be a great place to snag your readers’ attention with a quick introduction to the issue you will be addressing. Since our contributors will come from varied backgrounds, consider mentioning how this topic caught your attention.

This is where you will dive into your topic and tell us about your experience, observations, and perhaps a few other perspectives from research you have done on the issue. For the given example, I would provide succinct and interesting things to say outlining my experience buying and destroying leather-bound books for the sake of slathering them in various types of bad-smelling leather treatments so that someone else with access to hefty scientific equipment could shoot the samples with lasers. At least that’s what I envision happening to them.

Ultimately, it will be beneficial for you to sum up your experience for us and tell us about how your perspective changed as a result of investigating this issue or how you intend to take your experiences here to your next place of employment or volunteering. What resources helped you learn more? How can we, as a community of librarians, learn from your experience as well?