Technicians Staff: Richard Homer
Conservation Assistant
Richard Homer received his Certificate in Bookbinding from North Bennet Street School in Boston, Massachusetts.
In his position at CCAHA as a Conservation Assistant, he performs book conservation treatments ranging from the full treatment of a 14th Century manuscript Bible from the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia, to a unique, autographed, and collage-decorated copy of Kurt Schwitters' Anna Blume printed in 1922. Richard is a member of CCAHA's Health and Safety Committee and has also co-operated with conservators and other lab staff in developing a treatment protocol for the use of calcium phytate to conserve iron gall ink manuscripts. Outside of his work at CCAHA, he takes on occasional bookbinding and boxmaking projects.
Before joining the staff at CCAHA in 2000, he worked as a Protective Enclosures Assistant at the Weidner Conservation Lab of Harvard University and as the Collection Maintenance Assistant at the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston, Massachusetts where he performed conservation treatment on books, maps, and pamphlets and assisted with an inventory of the collection.
Email Richard at rhomer@ccaha.org.