As a quick recap from the last post, we are discussing preservation measures to counter issues in our home environment, including: We covered the first bullet point in the last post, and today we are continuing on to pollution, dust, and clutter. Yep, we are talking about good, old fashioned housekeeping. Pollution can have surprising […]
Now that we’ve defined cultural heritage and preservation, and how these concepts apply to your own collections, it’s time to learn about deterioration and how we can slow it down. First, we need to know what we’re up against! In our home environment, sources of deterioration include: We’ll do a post on each bullet point, […]
In this series, we are going to cover the basics of cultural heritage preservation at home, or that is, taking care of your family papers, collections, and heirlooms, so they last as long as possible. We’ll begin by defining a few terms that will be helpful for you to know. What is cultural heritage? Wikipedia […]
Preservation Week is an annual event during the week of May Day that celebrates the care of collections and emergency preparedness for cultural heritage. While 2025 Preservation Week has passed (it was April 27-May 3), HPL Special Collections is always thinking about the preservation and protection of our collections. Since Preservation Week last year, we have […]
The Special Collections team is happy to announce that we will have limited open hours on one Saturday per month! Keep an eye on the Special Collections Homepage for the next schedule Saturday Hours (noted in the right-hand side bar). Please join us and get a little research done on the weekend! More Special Collections […]
Happy Holidays from Special Collections! The library has collected vintage greeting cards for the past few decades, which the Special Collections Department has arranged and preserved into the HPL Greeting Card Collection. During the holiday season, and for many other holidays throughout the year, we love to share our favorites from this collection. From kittens, […]
The Special Collections team at Haverhill Public Library is always celebrating archives, and this month we are bringing the celebration to you, our patrons! We have an extensive and ever-growing collection archival materials, and we want you to know about them and what they can do for you. So, you might be asking, what exactly is […]
We are delighted to announce a new digital collection of rare shoe industry books, available on Internet Archive! The collection is a sample of our shoe industry materials and includes a variety of early shoemaking publications, such as lasting manuals, a treatise on uncommon foot shapes, a shoe manufacturing machinery guide, and a retailer catalog. […]
We are happy to announce the addition of Bradford College photographs to the Senter Digital Archive! As part of an ongoing project to make our archival collections discoverable, we have been working on our largest one, the Bradford College Collection. The materials in this collection were transferred to the Haverhill Public Library following the closure […]
Over the past year, the Special Collections Department has been working to get even more of our digitized images online in the Senter Digital Archive. We are happy to announce that we are now able to continuing adding images at a decent pace! In the latest batch of images, there are many images of the […]