Brenna Campbell is Head of the Preservation & Conservation Department at Princeton University Library. Prior to her time at Princeton, Brenna was Assistant Conservator at The University of Iowa Libraries. She completed Kress and Sherman Fairchild fellowships at The Morgan Library & Museum, a Mellon Fellowship at The Museum of Modern Art, and an internship at Harvard University Library’s Weissman Preservation Center. She has an MS in Information Studies and a Certificate of Advanced Study in Library and Archives Conservation from The University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Art History from Wellesley College.  

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. Her current research interests include environmental management for libraries and the preservation implications of shared print and coordinated collecting arrangements.