ICON NEWS, The magazine of the Institute of ConservationN°3, Mars 2006
Funding news, major US collections survey
Longer life for BL collections
Cambridge’s newest conservation centre
N°4, Mai 2006
Libraries and archives preservation
Leading archives and museums
Rehousing Indian paintings on Mica
Simple protective folder and box construction
Conference : Metal in paper thematic network. 2nd iron gall ink meeting
N°5, Juillet 2006
Rotating the treasures on display in the British Library
Towards an assessment system for bookbinding leather deterioration
N°6, Septembre 2006
The International Book and Paper conference in Edinburgh
Book in the bog (voir aussi article postérieur dans Icon News N°11)
Domesday is digitised
Internship in Book Conservation at the British Library
Seminar : Review of Islamic papermaking
Archival boxes : test results online
Professional matters : the treatment of sacred objects
Conserving Ancient Egypt in Cambridge
Intervention : A compromising profession ?
N°8, Janvier 2007
Conserving the sacred
Course : 10th international course in conservation of Japanese paper
In practice : the use of Urushi for restoration of oriental lacquer objects
Intervention : Can conservators read (or write) ?
N°9, Mars 2007
A labour of love : on-line collection of B. Fleetwood-Walker’s working drawings
Caring and sharing : Conservation and Cultural Politics in Scotland
Mica paintings revisited
Conferences : Montefiascone : Archival and Account bookbinding, the Syriac binding
N°10, Mai 2007
Research and standards –European dimensions
Meet Hiromi Katayama, founder and president of Hiromi Paper International, Inc.
Papier mâché masks
A cautionary tale : advices on packing when flying off to do conservation overseas
Talk : Coaching and mentoring for effective emergency management
In practice : Exploding boxes
N°11, Juillet 2007
News : the British Library Conservation Centre
Social bookmarking on the Web
Heritage white paper
Wellcome Home : a collection moved, preserved and displayed
The Faddan More Psalter (suite de l’article Book in the bog du n°6)
Conference : Iron gall inks : approaches to conservation in Scotland
Intervention : Vanishing trick : disparition des fournisseurs de materiel de conservation, ie moulins à papier

The paper Conservator :Vol. 29, 2005
- A study of unusual degradation on a seascape painting associated with the use of zinc white pigment
- The Florence flood of 1966 : a report on the current state of preservation at the libraries and archives of Florence
- The development of a testing method for assessing book joint repair
- Current use and future development of the database of the St. Catherine’s Library conservation project
- X-ray diffraction and FT-IR study of caprine and ovine hide
- The conservation of the Sarajevo Haggadah
Vol. 27, 2003
- The conservation of the Annotationes in Libro Evangeliorum using a natural cloth hollow over a moulded Japanese paper spine-former
- The conservation and preservation of rare ‘dragon’ playing cards
- Laponite residues on paper and parchment
- Rehousing of print collections at the British Museum – the William Blake post binder project and other recent approaches
- Preservation microfilming and digitisation at London Metropolitan archives : surveying and conservation preparation prior to image capture
- Papers from conference : ‘Part and parcel of the job : planning, packing and transporting loans for exhibition’
- From sausage rolls to sushi and back again : lessons for successful travelling block-buster loans
- Courier training at Tate
- ‘The story of Time’ : managing a major loans-in exhibition at the National Maritime Museum
- An unfolding exhibition – conservation and registrar perspectives
Vol. 26, 2002
- Papers from IPC Toning conference
- Perspectives on image reintegration
- The practicalities and aesthetics of retouching : rationality versus intuition
- Toning with paper extract
- Toning paper as a repair material : its application to 3-dimensional organic objects
- Mellow yellow : toning paper with traditional Far Eastern colorants
- Dyeing all-fibre papers with fibre-reactive dyes
- Some alternative strategies in matching and toning paper and parchment for repair of books and manuscripts
- An investigation of the use of digital colour matching for the toning of papers using ink-jet printing
Vol.25, 2001
- A brief (and highly selective) history of the Institute of Paper Conservation
- A discussion about accreditation : reasoning, recent history and outlook
- Government and the development of conservation in the UK
- Developments in paper conservation in Japan
- A review of some of the main trends in training and education in paper conservation in the UK, 1970-2000
- Training for conservators – A changing profile ?
- Risk management, value and decision-making
- Practical uses of risk analysis
- The changing face of paper conservation science
- Personal and professional reflection : a conversation with Christopher Clarkson
- Some memoirs of a conservator in private practice : change, continuing and consolidation
- Tears and tears, 25 years
- Change, we hope for the better
Vol. 24, 2000
- The conservation of a scrap screen from Carlyle’s House, London
- The problem of light in Duke Humfrey’s Library
- Conserving reflections of the American Civil War : case study of an 19th-century panorama box
- A glance at the history of display and mounting of British watercolours
Vol. 23, 1999
- A brief survey of paper board and some of the literature describing it with some definitions of marketing terms for mount boards used in conservation
- Victorian album structures
- Conservation, mounting and storage solutions for 2 Hamzanama folios
- 14th-century documents of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem : analysis of inks, parchment and seals
Vol. 22, 1998
- The heyday of pastels in the 18th century
- The production, framing and care of English pastel portraits in the 18th century
- Analysis of pastel and chalk materials
- The effect of water treatments on paper with applied pastel or powder pigment
- The conservation of Mrs. Marton, an 18th-century pastel and gouache portrait by Daniel Gardner
- The history, use and characteristics of wax-based silkscreen inks and the implications for conservation treatment
- An alternative immersion method
Vol. 21, 1997
- Aqueous light bleaching of modern rag paper : an effective tool for stain removal
- An investigation into the discolouration of the background paper of Matisse’s La Perruche et la Sirène
- Dimensional stability of paper in relationship to lining and drying procedures
- A reappraisal of the enzyme lipase for removing drying oil stains on paper
- Analysis of modern Chinese paper and treatment of a Chinese woodblock print
- Developments in the display of books at the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Countdown to the William Morris exhibition
- Recommended reading : an approach to the treatment of works of art on paper infested with fungal colonies
Vol. 20, 1996
- Observations on Holbein’s portrait drawings
- Wafers and wafer seals : History, manufacture and conservation
- Inlaying drawings : an assessment of 2 methods
- Oxygen deprivation for the extermination of insects infesting architectural drawings
- Preservation program management at the Library of Congress : a case study
- An investigation of 3 metal point marking on a grounded paper using different application modes of the scanning electron microscope
Vol. 19, 1995
- Leafcasting with dermal tissues preparations : a new method for repairing fragile parchment, and its application to the Codex Eyckensis
- Xuan paper
- Factors influencing the wash-fastness of watercolours
- Thoughts on sewing frame design for the book conservator
- Technical analysis and conservation of a bark manuscript in the Dutch Royal Library
- Challenge and responsibility : caring for random collections of paper
Vol. 16, 1992 : Vellum and parchment
- Rediscovering parchment : the nature of the beast
- A conditioning chamber for parchment and other materials
- Printing on parchment or vellum
- The conservation of parchment objects using Gore-tex laminates
- The conservation of pleated illuminated vellum leaves
- The vellum of the book of Kells
- Vexed by vellum papers
- The conservation of Codex Eyckensis : the evolution of the project and the assessment of materials and adhesives for the repair of parchment
- Alternative methods of mounting parchment for framing and exhibition
- The conservation of 14th century parchment documents with pendant seals
- Laser Raman spectroscopy : a tool for non-destructive pigment analysis of manuscripts
- Gut membrane, parchment and gelatine incorporated into textile objects
Vol. 14, 1990
- The conservation of the Heal textile sample books at the V&A Museum
- A pH survey of an acidic textblock
- Paper washing
- Conserving the records of the first astronomer royal 31
- India proof prints
- A new chronology of papermaking technology
Vol. 13, 1989
Early European papers / Contemporary conservation papers
A report on research undertaken from Fall 1984 through Fall 1987, by Timothy D. Barrett
- Part one : Early European papermaking methods : 1400-1800
- Part two : Analysis of historical specimens
- Part three : Laboratory handsheets and accelerated aging
- Appendixes
Vol. 12, 1988
Papers from the 10th anniversary conference, ‘New directions in paper conservation’, Oxford, 14-18 April, 1986, part 3
- The conservation and restoration of terrestrial and celestial globes
- A review of current developments in deacidification
- Specialist equipment for paper conservators
- The conservation of photographs
- The discolouration of paper : origins and treatment
Vol. 10, 1986
Papers from the 10th anniversary conference, ‘New directions in paper conservation’, Oxford, 14-18 April, 1986, part 1
- Works of art on paper
- Alternative approaches to the treatment of mould
- Recent advances in the study of paper
Vol. 9, 1985
Hyôgu, the Japanese tradition in picture conservation
- Far eastern pictorial art : form and function
- Kakemono : the Japanese hanging scroll
- Paints and supports in Far Eastern pictorial art
- Japanese paper and hyôgu
- Japanese brushes for conservation
- Karibari : the Japanese drying board
- Conservation and mounting of eastern pictorial art : a bibliography of western language publications
Vol. 8, 1984
- Modern usage. Conservation at the Humanities research centre
- The conservation of 19th-century tracing papers
- The conservation of fans
- The nature and identification of cotton. Paper-making fibres in paper
- Mitnan : a new fiber source for handmade paper
- The binding historian and the book conservator
Vol. 5&6, 1980/81
Safety and health in the paper conservation laboratory
- paper conservation processes hazardous to health
- physical hazards in the paper conservation laboratory/workshop
- fire protection in the laboratory/workshop
- storage and disposal of toxic and flammable materials
- protective clothing and equipment
- local exhaust ventilation : fume cupboard specifications
- lighting for detailed work
- skin problems at work
- chemical hazards and toxicology
- first aid
- legal requirements for laboratory protection in the UK
- what is OSHA ? the USA Occupational Safety and Health Act and Administration
- Safety and health organization, information sources and training courses
Vol. 4, 1979
- a dry repair method for Islamic illuminated manuscript leaves
- the identification of non-wood paper-making fibres : part 2
- chlorine dioxide : observations on its use in paper bleaching
- notes on foxing, chlorine dioxide bleaching and pigments
- techniques of lining for the support of fragile works of art on paper
- an introduction to the photographic recording of archive material during conservation
- a lively look at Spanish paper making : a series of 18th-century woodcut cigarette prints
- the Spanish National Centre for restoration of books and documents
- the washing and aqueous deacidification of paper
Vol. 2, 1977
- the effect of residues of manganese compounds in paper on the bleaching of prints, etc...
- a method of sewing single sheets for binding
- further exploration in the use of N-methyl-2-Pyrrolidone as a solvent for old flour paste
- enzymes in a viscous medium
- paper bleaching : its simple chemistry and working procedures
- guarding and filing – the assemblage and binding of miscellaneous documents
- the Ambrotype – research into its restoration and conservation : part 2
- a conservation method for nitrate based photo materials
- the use of enzymes to release adhesives
- Society of Archivists conservation : conferences 1977 and 1978
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Fascinating.
