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Notice: Due to budget reductions, effective August 15, 2025, the MSU Libraries will no longer ship materials to addresses within a 50-mile radius of the MSU Main Library.  Faculty, staff, and students that live within 50 miles of the Main Library will need to pick up materials requested at the Main Library Circulation Desk, at the lockers in the north vestibule of the Main Library, or at the Gast Business Library.

Staff Profile
Eric Alstrom

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Librarian II - Continuing
Conservation & Preservation

emailalstrom@msu.edu

phone_iphone517-884-0905

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MSU Main Library
366 W. Circle Dr.
Mailstop 1
East Lansing, MI 48824-3700

Subjects

  • Book and Paper Conservation
  • Bookbinding and Artists Books
  • History of Books and Printing

Publications

  • The Planning and Construction of Book and Paper Conservation Laboratories: A Guidebook. (2012-09-05). American Library Association, Jennifer Hain-Teper and Eric Alstrom, http://www.ala.org/alcts/resources/preservation/conservation-labs
    Also wrote chapter on "Design and Layout"
  • Eric Alstrom. (2008-07-07). The Mystery of the Wire Loop: A Query for Investigation. The Book and Paper Group Annual, 24, (pp. 97-98), American Institute for Conservation, 2005
    Also published in "The Bonefolder" (Volume 2, No. 1, Fall 2005) available online .
  • Your Gonna Do What?!?: The Conservation of Archival Materials. (n.d.). International Congress of Archivists, Paper
    Published in the proceedings of the 2005 ICA/SUV International Archives Conference held at Michigan State University.