Currently Kazuko Hioki serves as the Conservation Librarian and Asian Studies Liaison Librarian at the University of Kentucky Libraries. She has worked at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress. She is a recipient of the 2012 FAIC/Samuel H. Kress Conservation Publication Fellowship, and she is at work on a manuscript entitled Printed Books as Artifacts from Japan of hte Edo Period (1603-1867). She has lectured at various institutions nationally and internationally on topics of conservation and preservation for libraries and archives. More information about her studies and research can be accessed via the following link: http://works.bepress.com/kazukohioki She received her Bachelor of Agriculture in Pesticide Chemistry from Kobe University, Japan, and worked for the Sumitomo Chemical Company as a scientific information specialist. She earned an M.I.L.S with the Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the University of Texas at Austin.