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Beatriz Haspo

Library of Congress
Conservator
Washington, DC, USA
Beatriz Haspo is Collections Officer at Library of Congress, Collections Management Division, Preservation Directorate. She is a senior conservator managing a broad range of activities to ensure preservation, access, security, and storage of collections. She is responsible for developing and coordinating library-wide projects, studies, and surveys. She serves as the key planner for transferring collections off-site and as the primary liaison for projects related to digitization, reformatting, and preservation treatment of the collections managed by the Division. She is alumni of the Leadership Development Program of the Library of Congress.

She is adjunct faculty at the University of Maryland iSchool responsible for the master’s degree course in Library and Archives Preservation. She is a doctorate candidate in Museology at the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies in Portugal with a scholarship from UNESCO- Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity. She serves as volunteer manager of APOYOnline-Association for Heritage Preservation of the Americas. She serves as board member of the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation and is a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation (IIC).

She holds M.A. in Art History (Brazil); B.A. in Simultaneous Interpretation in German-Spanish-Portuguese (Austria). She is member of national and international organizations engaged in cultural heritage preservation, and fluent in five languages.