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About Ellen Cunningham-Krupp

Cunningham-Kruppa is the Ransom Center’s Associate Director for Preservation and Conservation. She has been a practitioner, educator, and consultant in the field of cultural record preservation for over 30 years. In 2016 Ellen was awarded the American Library Association’s Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Award in Preservation. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an MLIS from UT Austin, and is an affiliated assistant professor with the University of Delaware/Winterthur Program in Art Conservation. She received an Endorsement of Specialization in Administration of Preservation Programs from Columbia University’s School of Library Service. In 2019 The Legacy Press published her book Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators.

About Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

Cunningham-Kruppa is the Ransom Center’s Associate Director for Preservation and Conservation. She has been a practitioner, educator, and consultant in the field of cultural record preservation for over 30 years. In 2016 Ellen was awarded the American Library Association’s Paul Banks and Carolyn Harris Award in Preservation. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies and an MLIS from UT Austin, and is an affiliated assistant professor with the University of Delaware/Winterthur Program in Art Conservation. She received an Endorsement of Specialization in Administration of Preservation Programs from Columbia University’s School of Library Service. In 2019 The Legacy Press published her book Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators.

Unlocked voices of the arts and humanities

November 12, 2020 - Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

With generous funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Harry Ransom Center recently completed a two-year project to preserve through digitization more than 3,100 unique sound recordings covering a broad range of political, social, literary, and artistic topics. These recordings join another 4,000 previously digitized audio files, creating a substantial corpus of over 7,000 digital recordings accessible for the first time to researchers and the public in the Ransom Center’s reading and viewing room.  [Read more…] about Unlocked voices of the arts and humanities

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Preserving one of the Center’s most celebrated objects

October 15, 2019 - Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

reinstallation of the heliograph

In partnership with imaging specialists and conservation scientists across the country, in summer 2019, the Harry Ransom Center undertook a project to ensure the longterm preservation of The Niépce Heliograph, the earliest known surviving photograph made with the aid of the camera obscura. [Read more…] about Preserving one of the Center’s most celebrated objects

Filed Under: Conservation

NEH helps to break the sound barrier

April 5, 2018 - Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

Rare sound recordings to be preserved and made accessible with grant

For the first time, sound recordings documenting the work and lives of notable cultural figures such as Julia Alvarez, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Norman Bel Geddes, Norman Mailer, Anne Sexton, and Gloria Swanson will be publicly available for research. [Read more…] about NEH helps to break the sound barrier

Filed Under: Conservation Tagged With: audio, National Endowment for the Humanities, sound recordings

Theatre critic Mel Gussow’s legendary interviews available online

April 3, 2018 - Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

by Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa and Eric Colleary

British and American theatre history preserved in candid recordings

Mel Gussow was the lead cultural critic for the New York Times for more than 40 years. Throughout his career, he recorded interviews with stars and unknowns of the American and British theatre. [Read more…] about Theatre critic Mel Gussow’s legendary interviews available online

Filed Under: Conservation, Theatre + Performing Arts Tagged With: Mel Gussow, New York Times, preservation, sound recordings, theatre criticism

Conservation treatment gives new life to St. Jerome in His Study

February 5, 2017 - Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

In addition to two portraits by the artist Mary Beale, the Ransom Center’s old master painting St. Jerome in His Study will be exhibited in the newly renovated galleries of the University’s Blanton Museum of Art from February 2017 to February 2019. [Read more…] about Conservation treatment gives new life to St. Jerome in His Study

Filed Under: Art, Conservation Tagged With: Art, Blanton Museum of Art, Conservation, Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Marinus van Reymerswaele, Mark van Gelder, painting, St. Jerome, St. Jerome in His Study

“The Library of the Future”

January 19, 2017 - Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

Helen Shenton, Librarian and College Archivist of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, presents “The Library of the Future; the Future of the Library” on Thursday, March 2, at 7 p.m. CST. This event will be livestreamed via the Harry Ransom Center’s Facebook page.
[Read more…] about “The Library of the Future”

Filed Under: Conservation, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: analog, digital preservation, libraries

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