Brenna Campbell is the Associate Director for Conservation & Exhibition Strategies at Yale University Library. She has held past positions at institutions including the Morgan Library, the Museum of Modern Art, the University of Iowa, and most recently, Princeton University, where she was Assistant University Librarian for Preservation & Conservation. Brenna has an extensive background and expertise in rare books conservation, preventive conservation, and conservation of modern and contemporary materials. She has presented and published on topics including conservation metadata, conservation treatment of Dieter Roth’s Snow and Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise, preservation of stolen and forged early Texas documents, removal of leather dressing from paper, and construction of custom mounts for exhibiting books. She is a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation and an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation.
Certificate of Advanced Study in Library & Archives Conservation, University of Texas at Austin
MS in Information Studies, University of Texas at Austin
BA in Art History, Wellesley College