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UVA Shannon Library
170 McCormick Road
Charlottesville, VA
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Susanna Donovan

Conservator for Special Collections,
UVA Shannon Library

Biography

Sue is a book conservator at the University of Virginia Library. She got her degree at the Universite de Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne specializing in book and paper, and has had internships and fellowships in both book and paper at the Center of the West (formerly Buffalo Bill Historical Center), The Albertina Museum, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Wilson Library, The Balboa Art Conservation Center, The University of Notre Dame Hesburgh Library. Sue wrote her Masters thesis on the history and conservation of books bound with caoutchouc during the age of the industrial revolution. Sue enjoys sharing pictures of cats and otters and loves exchanging ideas about treatments and lab hacks.