Carole Dignard graduated from the University of Ottawa with a B.Sc. in Physics and Italian, and later with an Honours B.A. in Classical Studies; she also graduated from the Master of Art Conservation (objects) program at Queen’s University where her research project involved assessing the impact of various conservation treatments on the shrinkage temperature of waterlogged leather. Carole was a J.P. Getty Fellow at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Harvard University, and then joined CCI’s Objects Laboratory in 1988. She has published on the treatments of a Tlingit wrapped-twined basket, a Labrador kayak, and a fur-trimmed cape suffering from metal-ion catalysed oxidation, as well as on leather backing repairs using BEVA 371, mount-making for museum objects, preventive conservation, ultrasonic misting, accreditation in conservation, and Nd:YAG laser-cleaning.
