Julia Merkel
Preservation Officer, Associate Professor
0000-0002-4666-6145
Building: Carrier Library
Office: 205
MSC: 1704
Department: Special Collections
Pronouns: She / Her / HersAbout me
Responsibilities:
Special Collections Team Member
Conservation technician
Disaster Recovery collection salvage consultant
Book repair & binding decisions
Music Score binding
Environmental Monitoring
Exhibit design & installation
Artists and movable books subject interests
MFA Painting, James Madison University 1992
BFA Sculpture & Art History, cum laude, University of Notre Dame 1988
Collections Care & Maintenance Certification, University of Missouri 1998
Academy of Certified Archivists, 2006
About Special Collections
The mission of Special Collections is to collect, steward, and preserve materials that document the Central Shenandoah Valley as well as the institutional history of James Madison University. Special Collections also serves as the Libraries’ repository for rare and unique materials.
The Preservation office within Special Collections provides book and paper conservation for rare and archival collections as well as book repair for the Libraries’ circulating collections.
Our team works to support teaching and scholarship with primary source materials and to promote primary source literacy within teaching and learning at JMU and the wider community of researchers. Special Collections materials and services are available to the public.