Our new video series, Spotlight on Conservation, examines conservation issues involving some of the most complex objects in the Norton Simon collections. In this inaugural episode, Conservator John Griswold looks at George Herms’ "The Librarian" from 1960, an assemblage sculpture comprised of items that the artist plucked from the garbage, including books, papers and a stool, and the challenges involved in preserving such delicate, multi-media works.