We are a group of curious people from different disciplines that care about preserving cultural heritage the world over. Although many of us are based in cultural institutions that  take care of renown works of art, literature & scholarship, we acknowledge that we all have valued treasures in our personal and communal lives. Stewardship for our cultural patrimony belongs to everyone.

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For more information please contact our Research Team:

Miriam Centeno, Principal Investigator
Collections Care Coordinator, Preservation Services
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
mcenteno@illinois.edu
217-244-7106

Miriam Centeno is the Collections Care Coordinator at the University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign, where she oversees workflows in support of the University Library’s paper-based collections, manages environmental monitoring, integrated pest management and stack maintenance issues related to preservation. She was inspired to start the Mushiboshi Project, after she saw a Japanese scroll depicting the tradition of airing out books & textiles at the Freer Sackler Gallery in Washington. DC., where she realized that preservation happens around the world, and can be practiced by everyone.

Lisa Vallen, Co-investigator
UC Cooperative Extension Project Archivist
UC Merced Library
evallen@ucmerced.edu
209-291-9394

Lisa Vallen started working on the Mushiboshi Project as a MSLIS student at the iSchool at Illinois in 2015.  After her graduation in May of 2016, she continued to work on the project as an employee at University of California Merced.  While at Merced, Lisa Vallen completed the required IRB training.

Jon Sweitzer-Llame
Preservation Services Graduate Student Assistant, Illinois University Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign iSchool, class of 2017

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