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Specialist in Library Collections and Preservation
About Harry Ritchie
In 2019, Harry Ritchie led the stabilization of the crumbling 14th-century Lichfield Fragment, a single vellum leaf bearing early Middle English glosses, using a custom low-oxygen microclimate chamber he co-designed with materials scientists at the British Library. Unlike many preservationists who prioritize digitization over physical integrity, Harry insists on 'tactile fidelity': every intervention must preserve not just legibility but the object’s material biography, the ink’s iron gall corrosion patterns, the parchment’s fiber alignment, even the faint thumbprint smudge from a 17th-century cataloguer. He’s advised UNESCO on post-disaster recovery protocols for flood-damaged archives in Bangladesh and Ukraine, adapting humidity-buffering silica gels to monsoon-prone storage facilities. His current work focuses on ethical deaccessioning frameworks that treat withdrawn items not as waste but as data sources, mapping paper acidity gradients across decades of municipal library discard logs to model regional industrial pollution histories.
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